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• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Artist, Oxygen

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Men, Envy

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.173, 谷月社

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• Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Friendship, Success

  Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1973

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• I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

  Catherine Hicks

  Drama, Joy, Dames

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• The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sorry, Couple, Memories

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Believe, Dying

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.

  Michael Collins

  Distance, Rich Or Poor, Blue

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• She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.

  Henry James

  Sweet, Eye, Thinking

  "Portrait of a Lady".

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• I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hated, Wanted

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• To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Self, Dust, Sea

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.541, Open Road Media

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Pain, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Growing Up, Ideas, World

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.302, Vintage Canada

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• I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Crazy, Cancer

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hate, Envy, Praise

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, Evil

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• Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

  Laini Taylor

  Expression, Eyebrows, Arches

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Ideas, Honor, Rooms

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

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• A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Perfect

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.134, Applewood Books

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• As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

  Abbi Glines

  Eye, Acceptance, My Best Friend

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.33, Abbi Glines

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• Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

  Maya Angelou

  Jealousy, Envy, Romance

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.60, Bantam

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• Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

  Paul Eldridge

  Jealousy, Passion, Love Is

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• Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

  Samuel Johnson

  Jealousy, Envy, Your Jealous

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.128

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• Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

  Alfred Adler

  Motivational, Fear, Learning

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