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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
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"In jealousy there is more self - love than love."

"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."

"That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown."

"Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people's goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone's dream."

"A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away."

"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."

"Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary."
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"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."

"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."

"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."
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