In a world in which everyone cheats, it’s the honest man who passes for a charlatan.
– Andr Gide
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- Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least. – Andr Gide
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- An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives. – Bryant McGill
- I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone. – Anna Carey
- Some stuff which I do aren’t some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it’s about thinking and it’s about how clever am I! – Deyth Banger
- Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper. – Peter Singer
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- I do not want you to live in the dream world because time erratically passes away in that world. Come to reality and begin to act now. – Sunday Adelaja
- You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself. – Shannon L Alder
- Let’s be honest, honest it’s important. I don’t care about you, don’t say bullshit and if there isn’t any important thing please don’t write me. – Deyth Banger
- You Can Not Me Honest To Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself. – Chris Mentillo
- You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself. – Chris Mentillo
- The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!--œThe only honest things I can say to you are insults. – Brandon Sanderson
- (I)f you’re not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you. – Leigh Brackett
- Honest. It’s almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight. – Jim Butcher
- CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets. – William Shakespeare
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- Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place. – Kiki Archer
- Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. – Jack Schmitt
- Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything. – Peter Heller
- Every arena of life intersects with what’s going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it’s going. Everything. – Andy Stanley