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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

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— Letter to Husák

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People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

rob payne

— Chapter 26, p. 201

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Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung With feigning voice verses of feigning love.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act I, scene 1, line 30

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People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.


— Chapter 26, p. 201 (Working Class Zero (2003))

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'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 109.

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