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Quote by George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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