"What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are."

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During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence

— Edith Hahn Beer