“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.”
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“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
― Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
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