“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter, 1850
“Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.” — Don Miguel Ruiz · The Four Agreements, 1997
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” — André Gide · Autumn Leaves, 1950