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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

East of Eden
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

East of Eden
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Voss
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Emma
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

A Room of One's Own
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Near to the Wild Heart
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