Truth Quotes

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

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"She saw her life as a series of betrayals by the world"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The path to truth goes through pain and suffering."
Sonya
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"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited."
Nick Carraway
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"The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."
Nick Carraway
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"I am not mad, I am simply tired of appearing so."
Edmond Dantès
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"The more she revealed herself, the more she hid her true self."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Lies had become as natural to her as breathing."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Conscience is within us."
Sonya
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Illusion is the queen of the human heart."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She saw in others only what she wished to see."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The truth is often too terrible to bear."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had chosen illusion over truth, and illusion had abandoned her."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Just tell them the truth: that you never loved him."
Jay Gatsby
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"I believe the simple hell of it is that I am innocent."
Tom Robinson
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"The truth, I suppose, is simple enough."
Scout Finch
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"I am going to tell you something that will convince you of my sincerity."
Abbé Faria
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"When conscience speaks, all other voices must be silent."
Jean Valjean
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"What is the good of talking about virtue? It is a fine thing, but it goes no further than that."
Raskolnikov
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"My consciousness is my greatest torment."
Raskolnikov
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"One cannot escape one's nature through an act of will."
Raskolnikov
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"To confess is to begin healing."
Sonya
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"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."
Tom Buchanan
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"One thing alone is needful—the truth."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Children are innocent, yet the world demands they suffer."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Reality never matches our imaginations."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The truth is often too ugly to bear."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Words are often substitutes for genuine feeling."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Everything is complicated when you begin to examine it"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Truth demands a price we must pay."
Porfiry Petrovich