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I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For example, intellectuals like to dress themselves up as peasants . . . but it never works. The intellectual's constitution is impervious to such things - it permits only one object of worship - oneself. Generally speaking, an intellectual in the contemporary version is an exceptionally resourceful and, essentially, pitiful being.


Leonid Borodin


#intellectualism #intellectuals #posturing #pretense #faith

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!


Susan Sontag


#pretense #self-love #selflessness #love

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.


Patrick Rothfuss


#pretending #pretense #danger

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.


Eric Hoffer


#emptiness #evil #greatest #hardest #hide

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.


Emmet Fox


#allow #any #constructive #dwell #kind

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.


James MacArthur


#because #believe #come #frankly #good

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.


Jim Morrison


#body #bound #cripple #full #hardly

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.


John Tillotson


#crafty #danger #dark #person #pretenses

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.


Mikhail Bakunin


#equality #fraud #freedom #lie #lying

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.


Jody Gehrman


#fake #friends #friendship #humor #pretense






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