Living In Truth

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possibly only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eyes on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for the eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster. That was why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live in truth."

~ Milan Kundera, The Unspeakable Lightness of Being