"Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you have obligations of 'kindness,' of politeness. Since these obligations engage me strongly as soon as I find myself in the presence of such people and engage me through an ill-fated habit of patience and good-will, which in fact becomes will for humiliation (sometimes abject). Imagine a musician in an orchestra playing off-key because his neighbor is doing so, to be nice"
from Laure's Fragments of a Notebook (1937)
