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“But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.”

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Book:Possession

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“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter.”

Personality Lies Secrets

Book:We Learn Nothing

Source: We Learn Nothing

“Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.”

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Book:Late Discoveries: An Adoptee's Quest for Truth

Source: Late Discoveries: An Adoptee's Quest for Truth

“He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”

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Book:Heir of Fire

Source: Heir of Fire

“A graduation ceremony marks what you've learned; wisdom begins with what you're still willing to learn.”

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Author:Wayne Chirisa

“People who hate liars are often judgemental. If they weren't so judgemental then people might be more likely to be honest and tell the truth. But, because they are so judgemental, people resort to lies to keep the peace.”

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Author:Blake Crouch Newman

“The thing about my diary is that I lied in it. I obscured the truth. I never told even the empty space around me the whole story. I was afraid someone would find it, read it, know me. I wanted them to know a different girl. A better one.”

Lies Diary

Book:I Stop Somewhere

Source: I Stop Somewhere

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