When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
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Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! … He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.
The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
The lie is a condition of life.
All truth is simple … is that not doubly a lie?
The pure soul is a pure lie.
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the taste.
