“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Variant: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
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Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) cartographer, philosopher and mathematician
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“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) British philosopher
As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153