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Man is bound to lie about himself

Man is bound to lie about himself

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Franz Kafka (2003). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Barnes & Noble Classics