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" One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. "

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" What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? "

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" I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. "

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