"The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster."

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Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com

Coventry Patmore

#Women Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I donâ€™t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. Itâ€™s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. Itâ€™s not just being outside when theyâ€™re all inside. I used to be inside. I think thereâ€™s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when theyâ€™re happening which isnâ€™t normal.”
“There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.78, Vintage
“To me [my marriage to Kim Kardashian] was real. I would never go through something or do something that wasn't real or I didn't believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.”
“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
“It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.”
“Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it”
“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.”
“An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps”

Source : Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.36, Penguin

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