Sam Hayes

“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Woodcutters

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform