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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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"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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"Visibility without Value is Vanity."
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"It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness."
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
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"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
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"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."
Creativity
"This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards."
Love
"How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?"
Conflict
"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."
Emotion
"Gardening is not a rational act."
Gardening
"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
Appearance
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
Forgiveness
"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be."
Feminism
"Like preachers, I sell vision,like perfume ads, desireor its facsimile. Like jokesor war, it's all in the timing.I sell men back their worse suspicions:that everything's for sale."
Society
"It's all about sex and territory,which are what will finish us offin the long run."
Society
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