Brings to mind that old saying about poison being more corrosive to the container that carries it.
Ya know, the Bible has this same seeming "fixation" vs. falsehood...but if you want to call that "poison, too" -- be my guest.
(Seemingly in today's highly relativistic culture, labeling anything as "false" is simply highly charged and gets a reaction where some feelers over-focus on sentimentalism as a worldview...and somehow (reductionistically, I might add) think many/most expressions constitutes a mere "overflow" of emotions)