“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.”
― The House of the Scorpion
― The House of the Scorpion
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― City of Thieves
― City of Thieves
“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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