Jealousy was essentially ‘I want what you have,’ while envy was ‘I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can’t have it.’
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“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
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“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
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“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
― Flappers and Philosophers
― Flappers and Philosophers
“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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