How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

Andrew Sean Greer
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You can hide things from yourself, but you cannot hide them from yourself. You can lie to other people, but you cannot lie to other people. The only way to hide things is to not think about them.

Source: The Story Of A Marriage

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