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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.”
“The jealousy and evilness are like worms, that destroy the soul.”
“Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.”
“In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always b...”
“...love's shadow is jealousy.”
“He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.”
“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”
“That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to)...”
“You may think my jealousy would have been enormous during those days after Peter gave Tiger Lily the smallest kiss on the neck. And you would be right. But these moments were swallowed by a bigger ...”
“The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.”
“Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.”
“...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...”
“Sometimes, I think that I love life so much, that I make death jealous...”
“Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.”
“Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you dont let it get the best of you, Im sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? Ther...”
“This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.”
“Why do people who already have so much get bitter about those who have a little more?”
“...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...”
“He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he had never sought to form any picture in his mind, was not the featureless abstrac...”
“Entering by the carr, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen ...”
