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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in compari...

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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that...

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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been ...

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occu...

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to...

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What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...

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Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealou...

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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proc...

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Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

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I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?""No, about...

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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admirat...

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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to...

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I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? –

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well o...

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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplis...

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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...

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Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jeal...

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After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and tha...

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Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking ...

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In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

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My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, the...

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As for Iago’s jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wif...

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

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Zane GreyThe Call of the Canyon

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental...

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...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that ...

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Alexander McCall SmithMorality for Beautiful Girls

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than...

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In a democracy private citizens see a man of their own rank in life who becomes possessed of riches ...

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He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can't believe it, she s...

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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, se...

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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

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Anna Deavere SmithLetters to a Young Artist

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me ...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the bas...

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the bas...

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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . ...

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Most feminist groups began with women talking about how we saw ourselves and other women, how we act...

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The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

... 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