"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

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Source : Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

Eric Hoffer

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“Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death”
“Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.”
“Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.”
“I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.”
“I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
“You must try to forget all you have learned,â€ said the old man. â€œYou must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â€œMore people diedâ€ donâ€™t say â€œMortality rose.”

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