words from my favorite author

chillinn

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...who sadly passed away 55 years ago today not long after winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, thought to be very early in his career. Three years later, he was killed in an automobile accident.

"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth.Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
--The Fall

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"Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her."
--The Stranger
 
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