2026 Reading Challenge

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    Ann Beattie
    “Clichés so often befall vain people.”
    ― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men
    tags: clichés, vain, vanity
    686 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
    71 likes

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    Anthony Liccione
    “Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: desire, life, need, things, vain
    11 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: beauty, christiana-rossetti, inspiration, literature, vain, victorian-literature, virginia-woolf
    52 likes

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  • #5
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: vain, vanity
    28 likes

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  • #6
    Anthony Liccione
    “If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: beauty, empty, idle, importance, selfish, stuck-up, unsatisfying, vain, value, void, worthless
    2 likes

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  • #7
    Tiffany Madison
    “Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.”
    ― Tiffany Madison
    tags: female, men, model, photography, relationships, vanity, women
    92 likes

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  • #8
    Sophocles
    “The tyrant is a child of Pride
    Who drinks from his sickening cup
    Recklessness and vanity,
    Until from his high crest headlong
    He plummets to the dust of hope.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: destruction, evil, pride, recklessness, ruin, tyranny, vanity
    128 likes

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  • #9
    George Eliot
    “Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: generosity, pride, vanity, witty
    56 likes

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  • #10
    George Eliot
    “Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: ego, materialism, vanity
    31 likes

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  • #11
    Lionel Shriver
    “I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
    tags: vanity
    21 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: being-real, depth, flaws, friendship, honesty, relationships, shallowness, soulmates, true-friends, truth, vanity
    21 likes

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    Anthony de Mello
    “The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.”
    ― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
    tags: saintliness, vanity, wisdom
    33 likes

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  • #14
    Victoria Kann
    “I cried because I was so beautiful.”
    ― Victoria Kann, Pinkalicious
    tags: amusing, vanity
    6 likes

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  • #15
    T. William Watts
    “Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.”
    ― T. William Watts
    tags: humility, insanity, vanity
    3 likes



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