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Letter "L" » lie
«A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings»
Author: Olin Miller
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
consideration, feelings, her, lie, little, very, with consideration, woman
«Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.»
«Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth»
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
doubly, lie, simple
«A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always»
«A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«A lie cannot live.»
«Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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above, at peace, beautiful, Beautiful Life, brown, browned, browning, browns, death, earth, forget, forgive, Forgive and forget, For No One, grasses, grassing, have, head, head up, in no time, In the, lay out, lie, lie in, life, listen, listen in, morrow, morrows, must, musts, no., no, No Wave, one at a time, Only Yesterday, peace, silence, silences, silencing, soft, The Brown, The Forgotten, time, Time Life, to be, waving, with, yesterday
«A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.»
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