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“ …Time can assuage the pangs of love, but only death can still the anguish of wounded vanity. Love is simple and see no subterfuge, but vanity cozens you with 100 disguises. It is part and parcel of every virtue : it is the main spring of courage and the strength of ambition; it gives constant to the lover and endurance to the stoic; it adds fuel to the fire of the artist’s desire for fame…”
— Nov 24, 2024 11:10PM
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“… sincerity cannot protect you from its snare nor humour from its mockery.”
— Nov 24, 2024 11:14PM
Ash
is on page 189 of 326
“… and is it once the support and the compensation of the honest man’s integrity; it leers even cynically in the humility of the saint. you cannot escape it, and should you take pains to guard against it, it will make use of those very pains to trip you up. You are defenceless against its onslaught because you know not on what unprotected side it will attack you…”
— Nov 24, 2024 11:14PM
Ash
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“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most in eradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its power. It is more consuming than love with advancing years. Mercifully you can snap your fingers at the terror and the servitude of love, but age cannot free you from thethralldom of vanity…”
— Nov 24, 2024 11:06PM
Ash
is on page 188 of 326
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most in eradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its power. It is more consuming than love with advancing years. Mercifully you can snap your fingers at the terror and the servitude of love, but age cannot free you from thethralldom of vanity…”
— Nov 24, 2024 11:06PM
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‘“There’s just one thing I think you ought to know before you take on this job. And don’t forget it. If you do well you’ll get no thanks and if you get into trouble you’ll get no help…”’
— Nov 17, 2024 03:33PM
