“… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón , book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

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