Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Honest communication is a rare thing.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
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One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.
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Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
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How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
