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“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The church’s entrance was strewn with the dark immobile forms of men in bulky overcoats, asleep on cardboard boxes. They might have been dark whales, caught unaware by a tide that suddenly receded, leaving them stranded on the steps.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug