Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.
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My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
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Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.
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Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.
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Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
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I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
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But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
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When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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I'm the voice of honesty.
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Faith deals exclusively with believing God and His Word.
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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
