"It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable."

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Source : Josephine Tey (1952). “The singing sands”, Vintage

Josephine Tey

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.”
“One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.”
“The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine”
“No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.”
“If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.”

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.319, Harvard Business Review Press
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

Source : Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.210, Simon and Schuster
“My optimism for life carried through my work.”
“Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer - is exactly the movie that I was dreaming of. Nobody influenced us in the direction we took, or forced us to go somewhere we didn't want to go. Obviously, it is a movie that goes some ways that aren't conventional.”

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