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"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."
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"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
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