Quote of the Day (V.S. Naipaul, on ‘The Only Lies for Which We Are Truly Punished’)

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”— British novelist-essayist and Nobel Literature laureate V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018), In a Free State (1971)

Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on the ‘Grim Shadow of Self-Knowledge’)

“For it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)

Quote of the Day (Dostoevsky, on Lying to Yourself)

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karazamov (1880)