... the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted, ...
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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Jodi Picoult
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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Bill Watterson
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Aeschylus
She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free...
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Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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Peter S. Beagle
More Quotes By Marcel Proust
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days...
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were...
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
