A smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence. [...]
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. ~ Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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- Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
- Because I'll never cry for you again.
~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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H. Do NOT believe people who try to tell you who you are. You are the only custodian of your own integrity. All assumptions made by those that misunderstand - who you are and what you stand for - reveal a great deal about them, but absolutely nothing about you.
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Ulysse sans Ithaque
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