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If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

—William Hazlitt, 1823
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