Anais Nin Quotes About Truth
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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