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“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
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