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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

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[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility...

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I certainly am glad you like the stories because now I feel it's not bad that I like them so much. The truth is I like them better than anybody and I read them over and over and laugh and laugh, then get embarrassed when I remember I was the one wrote them.

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I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

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Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor
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Born: March 25, 1925
Died: August 3, 1964 (aged 39)
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