Antonio Porchia Quotes
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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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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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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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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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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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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'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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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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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'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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You exist only in what you do.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Death does not exist.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
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An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
