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Why did you lie to me?

I always thought I told the truth.

Why did you lie to me?

Because the truth lies like nothing else and I love the truth.

—MARK STRAND, “Elegy for My Father”

No way. You will not make the Netherlands home.

—GEERT WILDERS, message to refugees, 2015

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, “age-old pastime of humanity.”

—ROLAND BARTHES