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If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
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- Thomas Ligotti
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- Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1953; activity date not established; Wikidata Q1062799, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1062799 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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