“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
“Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.”
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
“so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them. ”
“Then said another -- "Surely not in vain My Substance from the common Earth was ta'en, That He who subtly wrought me into Shape Should stamp me back to common Earth again.”