The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. . Boris Pasternak
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The world is made up of people who are willing to lie for the sake of their own personal gain. This is just one of the many reasons why the world is so messed up. People say what they want others to think about them, whether it be true or not. They say things that are not true to get people to believe them.

Some people say whatever it takes, even if it is not true, to be seen as better than someone else. It doesn’t matter how many times people tell lies, they are there for good. The truth will always come out in the end, and sometimes that truth can cause a lot of pain and suffering on its own.

Source: Doctor Zhivago

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