“Vosotros sabéis que odio, detesto, que me resulta intolerable la mentira, no porque sea más recto que los demás, sino porque sencillamente me espanta. Hay un tinte de muerte, un sabor de mortalidad en la mentira que es exactamente lo que más odio y detesto en el mundo, lo que quiero olvidar. Me hace sentir desgraciado y enfermo, como la mordedura de algo corrupto.”
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“Las mentiras seguían a las medias verdades como la oscuridad sigue al crepúsculo—.”
“Engullimos de un sorbo la mentira que nos adula y bebemos gota a gota la verdad que nos amarga.”
“Cuídate del hombre que finge cojera”
“It’s better to speak the truth than to get caught hiding it.”