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Lying Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and…
- The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
- Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.…
- The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
- He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
- And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is…
- For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye…
- It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
- On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
- The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so…
- Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,…
- If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee…
- What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
- I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
- And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or…
- There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness…
More Lying Quotes
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden