There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. (Lucian Freud)

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

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