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Edith Wharton

"How much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?"

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"How much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?"

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Donna Grant

"Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence."

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Donna Grant

"I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart."

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"The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do."

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Donna Grant

"Jealousy is love in competition."

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Donna Grant

"Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this."

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Donna Grant

"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

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Donna Grant

"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."

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Donna Grant

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

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Donna Grant

"And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed."

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Donna Grant

"Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth.""You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense."

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"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."
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"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
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"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
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"The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay."
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