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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It’s a paradox that’s at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.