““You needed a bath,“ Jean interrupted. “You were covered in self-pity.“”
Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Reminiscence “The Capa of Vel Virazzo” section 5 (p. 63)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)
“Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.”
Source: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.38
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