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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. -

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

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Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Jealousy is the grave of affection. – Mary Baker Eddy

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That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. – J. M. Barrie

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