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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
— Paul De Man
A library is more precious than a bank.
— Abhijit Naskar
Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.
— Mabel Robinson
Great novels are above all great fairy tales ... literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.
— Murong Xuecun
If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.
— Abhijit Naskar
For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.
— G.M. Malliet
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth,
— Adam Johnson
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
— Arthur Miller
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
— Joseph Conrad
When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
— Celine Kiernan
In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
— Gilbert Murray
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
— Charlotte Lennox
This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not alone.
— Arlaina Tibensky
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities - the truth isn't.
— Caroline George
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
— Jorge Luis Borges
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.
— Victor Hugo
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Literature is not just stories. It's based on truth.
— Jean-Michel Guenassia
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
— Gao Xingjian
A good story will always outlive the truth.
— Marty Rubin
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is artistically fallacious.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
— George Henry Lewis
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
— William Carlos Williams
Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.
— Peter Kreeft
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
— Jean Racine
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic
When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.
— Seno Gumira Ajidarma
In the essence of truth lies deceit.
— Dejan Stojanovic
[Science is] the literature of truth.
— Josh Billings