“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
–Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
as quoted in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/slovakia-test-3