Henry Handel Richardson - Maurice Guest (1908)

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The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

Henry Handel Richardson

No, there's no such thing as absolute truth. If there were, the finest subtleties of existence would be lost. There is neither positive truth nor positive untruth; life is not so coarse-fibred as that. And only the grossest natures can be satisfied with a blunt yes or no.

Henry Handel Richardson

Truth?—it is one of the many miserable conventions the human brain has tortured itself with, and its first principle is an utter lack of the imaginative faculties.

Henry Handel Richardson