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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"I have a lot of vanity."
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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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"'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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"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."
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"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power."
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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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"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
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"Fame is vanity's bait."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!"
Emotion
"Art is the proper task of life."
Art
"Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me."
Peace
"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."
Psychology
"I love the forest."
Nature
"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
Philosophy
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
Maturity
"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
Emotion
"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
Friendship
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
Ambition
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