Quote by Joan Didion
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction wi

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. – Danish proverb

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Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiasticus – Bible

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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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