"She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him"

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What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

— Robert Musil