The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest · 1996

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The painful truth Truth

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1996

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David Foster Wallace

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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