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The thing about Cassandra is not that no one believed her, but that everyone had a reason not to. Truth, when it is inconvenient, does not lack for enemies — it lacks for witnesses.

— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
3w ago

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

4mo ago

We are betrayed by what is false within ourselves.

8mo ago

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

8mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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