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... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, ...

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He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- exc...

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Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA....

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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" true?". "You can't be rude to everyone who talks t...

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So it's true what they say about warlocks,

Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes...

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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light...

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Charles DickensChristmas Stories

You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never fe...

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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never fe...

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Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed ag...

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His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy.

Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said...

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In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unle...

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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all b...

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The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowl...

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Clarice LispectorNear to the Wild Heart

I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment...

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Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealou...

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For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can...

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You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not ju...

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Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...

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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up...

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Edward AlbeeWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, h...

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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, nat...

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At this point, the jealousy that tortured me all my life commenced, and the force with which it came...

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Elias CanettiDie gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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Elizabeth BowenThe House in Paris

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree...

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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first l...

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Erica JongHow to Save Your Own Life

Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.

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Erica JongHow to Save Your Own Life

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego ...

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It was not her way to make a conspicuous entry into anyone’s life, but towards the end of that week ...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

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Françoise SaganThat Mad Ache & Translator

Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happ...

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She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, ...

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Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that s...

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That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chie...

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fol...

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George EliotThe Mill on the Floss

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

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That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times th...

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Graham GreeneThe End of the Affair

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of...

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Graham GreeneThe End of the Affair

...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachme...

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But a vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies that develop between brothers or sisters almos...

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter ...

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I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wan...

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I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning ...

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The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...

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But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passion...

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Iris MurdochThe Nice and the Good

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies de...

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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.

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Jacqueline WilsonThe Illustrated Mum

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame ...

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Jane AustenJane Austen's Letters

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potent...

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Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encoura...

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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the ra...

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Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

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I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a...

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John KnowlesA Separate Peace

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat...

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John UpdikeThe Women Who Got Away

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret ...

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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the ...

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I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and ...

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I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influe...

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She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after tha...

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Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about ...

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Maggie StiefvaterBallad: A Gathering of Faerie

In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled ma...

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At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live...

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For in this way Swann was kept in the state of painful agitation which had once before been effectiv...

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His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle,...

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[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve...

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He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a per...

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... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the ple...

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Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existenc...

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As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge whi...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for ...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive: Part 2

She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it'...

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Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...

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Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact tha...

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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.