“You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies–which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world–what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose.”

- from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

I can never quite figure out which side Conrad is on.  I could either hail him as a brother or repudiate his views as an aetheist.  Whatever position he fights for though, he certainly says it well.