Most people do not like themselves at all. They distrust themselves, put on masks and pomposities. They quarrel and boast and pretend and are jealous because they do not like themselves. But mostly they do not even know themselves well enough to form a true liking.
 John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). copy citation

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Author John Steinbeck
Source The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Topic distrust mask
Date 1951
Language English
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