Richard H. Rovere is quoted as having said, "[Joseph] McCarthy invented the Multiple Lie—the lie with so many tiny gears and fragile connecting rods that reason exhausted itself in the effort to combat it."
This may be true, but I am convinced that Dhiraj Sharma perfected it. In the 2+yrs we've been married he has spewd more venom, rejection and deceit than I imagined was humanly possible. I find myself, indeed, exhausted in the effort to combat it.
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth . . . Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
Interestingly enough this appears to be a common trait with my husband as well. The other is that they all loudly proclaim their innocence to anyone who will listen.
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Marguerite Yourcenar
I would caution one not to dine with my husband.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.
Having returned in May from a one week stint on an Upgrade and Migration Project for Emhart Glass in Cham, I thought my husband might appreaciate this quote. But to fully appreaciate the rightious dignity contained therein, he would first have to express the slightest interest in reading his wife's blog... or at the very least the mere interest in his wife.
Love truth, but pardon error.
I live this philosophy. However, loving the truth that Dhiraj seldom reveals gives me little to love in him. I have pardoned him repeatedly, but he is as a criminal who, after having received his pardon, is insanely committed to reapeating the very offense that made him a convict and held him hostage in the first place. It would appear that he desires no pardon.
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
In my marrital experience, I find that both Montaigne and Democritus are correct. As Montaigne realtes, I was indeed born to inquire after truth. However, I believe that my husband hides his truth in the bottom of the deeps. In doing this, inhis own mind, he poses that infinite height of divine knowledge that only God posseses. A monumental acheivement for the morally indigent.
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
Apearrently, Dhiraj doesn't grasp this one. If he did, he'd understand why his parents and I (or anyone else, for that matter) find it difficulty to take him seriously.
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Doesn't Dhiraj have colleagues or friends named Boris and Leo?
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
I KNOW whereof she speaks!
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
I've always been a kind, loving, patient human being, but after the lies, threats, intimidation, humiliation and the brutal torture that my husband has inflicted upon me I must admit I can understand the satisfation that retaliatory brutality may appear to bring to someone. The sad irony is, if my husband would only confess the truth he's been hiding from me, truly repent of his misdeeds and recommitt himself the an honest loving relationship with me I would guard those truths with my very existence. Ok, hit me between they eyes with it now... the disloyal deceiver never values honesty and loyalty in others.
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