“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
Source: Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters
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