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  • Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

    Love   Life   Lying  
  • Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

    Dream   Art   Truth  
    Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire"
  • Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

    Past   Light   Justice  
  • I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

    Alma Katsu (2012). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
  • Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

    Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
  • I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

    Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
  • If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

    Men   People   Soul  
  • Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1749, Bantam
  • Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

    "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 1955.
  • I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.

    War   Fighting   Men  
  • Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

  • Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

    Lying   Giving   Painful  
  • Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  • Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  • God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

    God   Idols   Soul  
  • It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

  • The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

    Education   Secret   Guru  
  • The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

    Positive   Witty   Truth  
    Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing
  • The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 09, 2011
  • If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Funny   Wisdom   Witty  
    Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books
  • God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

    Order   Enemy   May  
    Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.88
  • We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

    "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.
  • I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

    "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.
  • You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

    Funny   Bible   Jesus  
  • I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

    Gratitude   Wall   Soul  
  • So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

  • Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

  • Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

    Guilt   Bitter   Speak  
  • Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

  • Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

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