Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 100 (tr. Fairclough)
Obscuris vera involvens.
“My responsibility was to tell you the truth, not wrap you in swaddling clothes.”
She raised her hood again, half-veiling her face in shadow. “Nor protect you from your own badly aimed temper.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 9 “The Five-Year Game: Reasonable Doubt” section 2 (p. 551)
“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us”
Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), The Grey King (1975), Chapter 9 “The Grey King” (p. 108)
“We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.”
Source: Stay
Tolstoy's Diaries (1985) edited and translated by R. F. Christian. London: Athlone Press, Vol 2, p. 512
Context: People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man. It can't be otherwise, because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark (the truth) everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.
