"I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them."

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You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

— Joseph Conrad