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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."

"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."

"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 is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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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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"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
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