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“We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)