Quote by George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is har

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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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

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Jealousy… is a mental cancer. – B.C. Forbes

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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. – Conrad Veidt

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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances. – Julie Burchill

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