"The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again."

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Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.24, Crown

Lisa Unger

#Leaving Quotes #Naked Quotes #Facade Quotes

“Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.”
“Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my art for my life. Iâ€™ve always said dance is the breath made visible. That covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.”

Source : "You’re Never Too Old to Express Yourself" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.
“Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.”
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem”
“. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.”
“I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.”
“To be really mediÃ¦val one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”
“I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.”

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