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

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

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