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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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"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"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."
"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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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