“It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.
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