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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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"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!"
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."
Love
"Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys."
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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
Envy
"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."
Life
"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
Friendship
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
Love
"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life."
Life
"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."
Doubt
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
Intelligence
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