Who Wrote That? #20

“She leaned far out on the window-sill,

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

“It was many and many a year ago,

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."

"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."