Vanity Quotes
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Blaise Pascal
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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
Blaise Pascal
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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
D. H. Lawrence
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
Lord Byron
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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
Andrew Davidson
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
William Faulkner
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I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
Anne Bronte
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But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
Barry Webster
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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
Connie Brockway
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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
Stone Gossard
Pearl Jam
