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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.