This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.

Boris Pasternak
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To doubt and to believe at the same time, and to keep one’s thoughts and actions separate is a difficult thing to do. We all have our own beliefs, our own opinions that we hold dearly. To express them openly can sometimes be hard. But to do so without letting them affect the way we conduct ourselves is even more difficult.

We all have things we know to be true, but we can’t prove it. This is the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch.

Source: Doctor Zhivago

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