Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly …

Eric Hoffer
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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 (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
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