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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
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"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
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"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."
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"The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building."
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"She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head."
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"The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people's eyes or by looking deep within themselves."
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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."
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"When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,-is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?"
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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"I have a lot of vanity."
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
Vanity
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
Advice
"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
Emotional
"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
Heaven
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Life
"The newest books are those that never grow old."
Books
"Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them."
People
"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."
Life
"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."
Old
"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation."
People
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