I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
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