"If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion."

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I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

— Emile M. Cioran