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“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“...you should know that in truth everyone is guilty before everyone else and for everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“so as not to hurt the feelings of young people who wanted to work but simply weren't strong enough, "Labor Day" became "Being Alive is Enough Day.”
― Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

“You guys … So hung up with words, words. … The words, who cares? They're rote noises to hold line bashes with, to get past the bone barriers around an actor's memory, right? But the reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium. … You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49