“"Your version of the truth is the only one that matters."
"Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths."”

—  David Mitchell , book Cloud Atlas

"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 199 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)

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