So the statement isn't literally true, but it actually is useful.

By the Easter he turned 83, in 1987, it was literally true.

It was almost literally true that she looked no older.

Of course that was literally true; a demon could not take physical form on Earth.

She had once thought it literally true that he was the only person in the world who knew everything.

This was the first time it had been literally true.

Finally, to the question rarely asked: Is it literally true?

While the title was not literally true, the term caught on.

Considering what I thought was going on inside the building, that might have been literally true.

It is literally true that no two people share the same reality.