Carolina QuotesTo me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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“To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is imposs…” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-3452B11856. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/3452b11856
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