"If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it."

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Source : Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

Amelie Nothomb

#Mirrors Quotes #Delight Quotes #Losing Quotes

“That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.”
“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.”
“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.”
“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”
“The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.”
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
“Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.”

Source : Martin Rees (2009). “Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning”, p.11, Hachette UK
“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”

Source : Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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