"A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying."
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"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
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"Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it."
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"Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness"
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"A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend."
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"For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
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"Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them."
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"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth."
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"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
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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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"Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind."
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"Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight."
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"Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks."
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"Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others."
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"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."
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"Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them."
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"Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it."
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"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"Jealousy dislikes the world to know it."
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"Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole."
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