"I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily"

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Order Quotes

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
“Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.”
“The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.”
“I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.”
“Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press
“We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.”

Source : Pope Paul VI “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”
“Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged,”

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