"truth is stranger than fiction" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [英語]

  1. 事実は小説より奇なり。小説(フィクション)は、現実に基づいて創作されるので、過去の出来事に拘束されない現実の事件の方が想像もできない奇妙なことが発生するものである。
    Sense id: ja-truth_is_stranger_than_fiction-en-phrase-jG23KX6r
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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    "George Gordon Byron の詩歌 Don Juan の一節 T is strange -- but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction; が最初の表現とされる。\n==== 異表記・別形 ====\n*fact is stranger than fiction"
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