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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. ↗

— Melissa Leo

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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. ↗

— Stephen Levine

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Sincerity is moral truth. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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