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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The object of the superior man is truth.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful...

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than...

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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