“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author”
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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author”
“Half a truth is better than no politics”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. ”
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you”
“Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty”
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some ”
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be”
“The real truths are those that can be invented”
“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics”
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth”
“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted”
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment”
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age”
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth”