Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"There is no greater torture than the torture of the conscience."
Raskolnikov
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"Betrayal is the deepest wound."
Edmond Dantès
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"Facts are more powerful than dreams."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"It is what it is, and I owe them that much."
Jay Gatsby
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"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."
Nick Carraway
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"I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person."
Jay Gatsby
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"I never loved him."
Daisy Buchanan
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"One thing only I know for certain and that is that man's judgment of rightness or wrongness is not based on reason."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The torment of uncertainty is worse than the torment of knowledge"
Raskolnikov
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"The burden of secrets will destroy a man from within"
Raskolnikov
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"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Atticus Finch
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"The truth, simple or not simple, is the truth."
Mayella Ewell
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"The search for truth is always more important than the search for comfort."
Atticus Finch
A
"A man cannot always be fortunate, but he can always be true."
Abbé Faria
E
"Betrayal is the cruelest knife of all."
Edmond Dantès
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"Reality disappoints those who expect too much from it"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Lies are the only truth we tell ourselves willingly"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was a masterpiece of self-deception"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
Nick Carraway
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"I'll tell you a family secret. I'm the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West."
Jay Gatsby
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"I've always been glad I said that. It was a strange thing to say."
Nick Carraway
D
"He's a bootlegger. Everybody says so."
Daisy Buchanan
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"A man may smile and bid you welcome, yet wish you to the devil."
Caderousse
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"The greatest treasure is not gold, but truth."
Abbé Faria
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"Betrayal is a bitter pill that never loses its taste."
Edmond Dantès
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"Do not torment me by asking me to justify myself."
Ivan Karamazov
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"She had learned to dissemble as naturally as she breathed"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Her infidelity was less about passion than about escape"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She mistook the excitement of deception for the reality of love"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Her tragedy was not in her circumstances but in her refusal to accept them"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)