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“It’s like speaking of the dead: you always hear about their good qualities, which no one ever noticed before, and that’s because the dead don’t get in anybody’s way anymore. All men are rivals, to some extent. We all like to feel ourselves above everybody else in every respect.”
― Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

“No one really wants to be idealized – we want to be seen and accepted and forgiven, and to know that we can be ourselves in our less edifying moments. So to be on the receiving end of somebody’s idealizing feelings is alienating. It looks like we’re being seen and admired like never before, but actually, many important parts of us are being forgotten.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love