“A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.”— Faraaz Kazi Related Quotes “…inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! … He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”— Friedrich Nietzsche “It’s been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It’s so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around.”— Astrid Yrigollen “I lied!’ I spat my whisper at him. ‘I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!’ I took a breath. ‘He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!”— Robin Hobb