“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
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“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.”
— Virginia Woolf, book A Room of One's Own
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