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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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 don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
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She kisses the children goodnight, leaving lipstick on their foreheads and a trail of Chanel No.5.
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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
