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“Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: ellen-olenska, hypocrisy, new-york, pulitzer-prize, social-criticism

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“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

tags: altruism, associate, associates, buddies, buddy, charity, companion, companions, companionship, compassion, confidant, confidants, denial, empathy, friend, friends, friendship, gene, genes, genie, ghandi, humanity, humor, humour, mahatma-ghandi, mandela, mate, mates, mercy, mother-teresa, nelson-mandela, pal, pals, partner, partners, past, philosopher, philosophy, satire, satirist, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, separation, social-criticism, sympathy, teresa, the-past, unselfish, unselfishness

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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

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