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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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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. – Mme. de Puixieux

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Love shouldnt be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you cant have that from the get-go, theres a problem. – Aaron Carter

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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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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