twenty-eight years and a million words
Well, methinks I've bitten off more than I can chew, this time. I went to see a dietician, and she told me to quit coffee. Just what I wanted to hear. I've decided to start right now (at 10:30 AM), come hell or high water.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov