The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
- Topic: Hero, Truth
- Location: Cozumel, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
