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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #pride

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #pride

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#pride

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#racism #pride

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward. ↗

— Mark Halperin

#letting-go #pride

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#pride #self-containment #solitude #pride

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#pride #pride

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that. ↗

— Robert Goolrick

#endings #middle #drama

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look. ↗

— Tite Kubo

#isshin #not-old-enough #stop-sulking #torture