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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
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.

The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential
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