Quote by Joseph Conrad
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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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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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. – African Proverb

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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Ive given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. – Oscar Levant

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