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Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Let the dry eyes perceive Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.
He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.
All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.
One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.
You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.
The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.
Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?
All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.