"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
"The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself."
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Source: Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge
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