• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer 1902-1983
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. pretenses
2. emptiness
3. something
4. thing
5. there

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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. by : Eric Hoffer

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