Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Source: Little Essays (1921), p. 107
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“Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
“Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.”
“Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.”
Odes, XXIX. (XXVII.), 1.
Miss Harkins, Chapter 13, p. 139
2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)
“Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?”
Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 7, “London, 2026” (p. 65)
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966