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  • I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Jealous Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Two Quotes , Giving Quotes