"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
"We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us"
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Source: Andre Gide (2012). “Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel”, p.226, Vintage
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