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The difficulties of being completely honest, truthful, and sincere, of keeping to idealism in a materialistic or mad world, afflict only the living. The dead are luckier. Not for them the compromises, the white lies, the half-measures, and the glib hypocrisies.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 39