"A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream."
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"Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one."
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"One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself."
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"Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to."
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"Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides."
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"Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation."
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"The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate."
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"Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion."
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"My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation."
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"Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one."
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"Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?"
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"None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy."
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"Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is."
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"The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy."
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"Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy."
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"Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting."
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"Envy is the central fact of American life."
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"You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa."
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"Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable."
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"Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style."
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