“Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.”

— Alfred Bester, book The Stars My Destination

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 188).

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