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"Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
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"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."

"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."

"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."

"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!"

"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."

"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
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"Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground."

"But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best."

"Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn't it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn't he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew."

"There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap."

"She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way."

"I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!"

"Little did I realise how much I would miss those ten minutes, those ten minutes in which I lived an entire lifetime."
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