I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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V. S. Pritchett was a 19th-century British writer and critic. Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett was a British writer and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia →