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Anton Chekhov
“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”
Anton Chekhov

Lucian of Samosata
“The city was filled to overflowing with persons who had neither brains nor individuality, who bore no resemblance to men that live by bread, and had only their outward shape to distinguish them from sheep.”
Lucian of Samosata
tags: sheep

Richard Matheson
“That which you believe becomes your world.”
Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

Umberto Eco
“Dissimulation is not fraud. It is an effort not to show things as they are. And it is a difficult effort: when we excel, others must not recognize our excellence. If someone were to become famous for his ability to disguise himself, as actors do, all would know that he is what he pretends to be. But concerning the true, excellent dissimulators, who have existed and exist still, we have no information.”
Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

Georg Simmel
“Our fellowman either may voluntarily reveal to us the truth about himself, or by dissimulation he may deceive us as to the truth. No other object of knowledge can thus of its own initiative, either enlighten us with reference to itself or conceal itself, as a human being can. No other knowable object modifies its conduct from consideration of its being understood or misunderstood.”
Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

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This is a group to explore the esoteric writings of The Catcher In The Rye through the lens of WW1 and WW2. To define that I take a quote from Phil ...more
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About Sartre, Camus, Proust, Hugo etc.
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