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Lying Quotes - Page 10

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.236, Routledge

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.371, Penguin

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.