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• Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sorry, Black, Monsters

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• jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

  Storm Jameson

  Mind, Suffering, Firsts

  Storm Jameson (1946). “The other side”, New York, The Macmillan company

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• Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Perfect, Want, Flaws

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• When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

  Samuel Johnson

  Husband, Past, Men

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• I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

  Adriana Lima

  Men, Jealous Relationship, Jealous Man

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• A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Blessing, Knowing, Unhappy

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• What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

  Pete Fountain

  Ties, Bows, Band

  "Jazz festival plans commemoration for trumpeter Al Hirt". www.cnn.com. April 28, 1999.

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• I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

  Lena Dunham

  Birthday, Anxiety, Age

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• Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

  Lord Byron

  Envy, World, Knows

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Credit, Accepting, Harbors

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• Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Cold, Sunny, Frigid

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

  Ruth Rendell

  Knives, Details

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Oct 30, 2011

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• Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.

  Diana Trilling

  Men, Steps, Would Be

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

  Emma Goldman

  Poor, Mediums, Jealous And Envy

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

  Wes Fesler

  Fire, Envy

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• Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

  Sarah Brightman

  Hate, Hatred, Time Love

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• Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

  Steve Fowler

  Hate, Years, Disrespect

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• Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

  Sylvia Plath

  Selfish, Writing, Female

  Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough (1991). “The journals of Sylvia Plath”

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• What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

  Peter Deunov

  Doe, Debt, World

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.121, Health Communications, Inc.

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• In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Want Something, Paris

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• Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Joy, Ego

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• The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

  Richard Perle

  War, Allies, Resentment

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• On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

  Henry Lawson

  Land, Australia, Lines

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

  Curt Goetz

  Jealous, Knows, Suspects

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• Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Ego, Misery

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