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"I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meannes, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people's time."

"Thanks to her I confronted my inner self for the first time as my nintieth year went by. I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature."