Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.