“ A man’s life may look strange and one may be tempted to believe it of him, yet he himself may have quite a different interpretation which assures him of the opposite; on the other hand, a person may have suffered harm to his soul without anyone suspecting it, for this harm lies not on the outside but in the person’s inmost being. It is like the rot in the core of the fruit ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation