Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings–that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have. Orson Scott Card
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating...
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Alexandre Dumas
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Richard Bach
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes...
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Alexandre Dumas
More Quotes By Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way...
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
