Quotes About Truth

May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it's all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don't do anything truthfully anymore, Lenu. And I've learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.

Telling the real, Jacques emphasized, is constitutionally difficult; you have to deal with the fact that the teller is always a distorting mirror.

So? Better to give up? No, the master answers, you don't have to throw everything away: it's arduous to speak truthfully, but you do your best.

Belki de gerçeÄŸi söylersek her ÅŸey daha az karma??k olur.

And this is how I see it today: it's not the neighborhood that's sick, it's not Naples, it's the entire earth, it's the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.

Kendimi baÅŸkalar?n?n sözlerine uydurmaktan b?kt?m. Gerçekten ne olduÄŸumu ve hangi insan olabileceÄŸimi bilmeye ihtiyac?m var.

they say Mama, I never said that, you're saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.

As coisas que não fazem sentido são as mais belas

I don't want my mother to die worrying about her sons." "Comfort her." "How." She smiled. "With lies. Lies are better than tranquilizers.

The better and truer you feel, the farther away you go.

And that is how I see it today: it's not the neighborhood that's sick, it's not Naples, it's the entire earth, it's the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.

What is clear to me, always, is that the writing must never lose sight of truth as its ultimate goal. Page after page, the drive to capture what is true, and not what resembles the truth, shapes the work. If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false—that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased—I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can't, I throw everything away.

But I must have overdone it, and the relationship between truth and fiction must have gone awry: now every street, every building had become recognizable

Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.

Es war eine wundervolle Erfahrung«, sagte ich zu ihr. »Was denn?« »Die Schwangerschaft, die Geburt. Adele ist bildschön und so lieb.« Sie antwortete: »Jeder erzählt sich das Leben so, wie es ihm gefällt.

L'infanzia è una fabbrica di menzogne che durano all'imperfetto

Reality can't stay inside the elegant moulds of art; it always spills over, indecorously.

Há tempos eu já percebera que cada um organiza a memória como lhe convém, e ainda hoje me surpreendo ao fazer o mesmo.

Diferentemente do que ocorre nos romances, a vida verdadeira, depois que passou, tende não para a clareza, mas para a obscuridade.

Ma adesso era chiaro, lei aveva ragione e io torto. Nino non fuggiva affatto da suo padre per paura di diventare come lui, Nino era già suo padre e non voleva ammetterlo.

Nas fábulas se age como se quer, na realidade se faz o que se pode.

Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many.

un buen relato es el que se escribe desde el fondo de nuestra vida

No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta