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• All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Suicide, Way, Superiors

  "Munich Airport by Greg Baxter review - good, old-fashioned existential angst" by Edward Docx, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2014.

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• Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sarcastic, Book, Cynical

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• I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Challenges, One Day, Actors

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• Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2499, Delphi Classics

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• I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

  Pharrell Williams

  Admire, Happens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Thinking, Work Out

  "Beyonce Knowles: It's Possible to Balance Work and Family" by celebrity-mania.com, March 2, 2011.

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• Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain that my husband woud never have found me." Michael's gaze lit with admiration, and he lifted his glass in her direction. "At some point I would have realized what I was missing, darling. An I would have come looking for you.

  Sarah MacLean

  Husband, Glasses, Missing

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• To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (1935). “Modern Painters”

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• I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Clever, Men

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• Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

  Julie Burchill

  Cities, Half, Barcelona

  "Patriotism is for reactionaries ... nationalism is the way forward". www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

  Joanne Harris

  Feelings, Devil, Natural

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• When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Clouds, Darkness

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• Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wish, World, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Birthmark (Unabridged): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House with the Seven Gables” & “Twice-Told Tales” (Including Biography)”, p.76, e-artnow

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• Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

  Eoin Colfer

  Night, Two, Tears

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

  Bret Harte

  Effort, Littles, Absence

  Bret Harte (1914). “The Writings of Bret Harte”

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• Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

  Evan Esar

  Feelings, Delight, Persons

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• Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

  Jane Austen

  Crowds, Welcome, Depends

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.10, Wild Jot Press

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• There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fall, Men, Pet

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Indian Tales: Ghost Story Collections”, p.3, 谷月社

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• I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

  David Levithan

  Appreciation, Nostalgia, Sentiments

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.113, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Admiration And Respect, Like You, Kitchen Confidential

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• That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration

  Philip Roth

  Drawing, Yesterday, People

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Irritation, Grace, Feelings

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• Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Giving, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Pride And Prejudice Pride, Objects

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.44

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• I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Matter, Riddle

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.337

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