The best lies come from the truth.


Sabaa Tahir

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So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
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You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cann...
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All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.
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But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare...
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Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her ...
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Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.
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Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.
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Most people...are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you...are no swift-burning...
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When did you star here?” I ask her.

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I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
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Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
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You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”

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I’d say it’s impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me.
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Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.
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Lies is lying the memory from the truth
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Karma how come we give the truth but the lies we receive..?
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The best lies are based on the
truth, at least in part
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Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.
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Truth is eternal.While Lies come with an expiration date.
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Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies
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The questions you never asked exposes the lies you've come to accept as truth.
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And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...
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Beatings from truth are better than kisses from lies.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies,As to go naked is the best disguise.
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The best stories come out of the truth.
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Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...
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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
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If you are in doubt, you are close to the truth
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Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.
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Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.
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Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
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