"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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"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

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"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power."

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George Eliot, British Author

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"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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