A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. — Quoted

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“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

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