truth is stranger than fiction

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Attributed to Lord Byron.

6 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: totuus on tarua ihmeellisempää — sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones
• French: la réalité dépasse la fiction — sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones
• Irish: is iontaí fírinne ná finscéal — sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones
• Japanese: 事実は小説より奇なり (jijitsu wa shōsetsu yori ki nari) — sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones
• Romanian: viața bate filmul — sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones
• Spanish: la realidad supera a la ficción — sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones