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  1. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    The better you look, the more you see
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  2. Paulo Coelho _ The Pilgrimage

    What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten-I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
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  3. Paulo Coelho _ The Alchemist

    The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.'Why do you weep?' the goddesses asked.'I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied.'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.''But... was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked.'Who better than you to know that?' the goddesses asked in wonder. 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!'The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.''What a lovely story,' the alchemist thought.
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  4. Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion

    My intellect was my greatest vanity.
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  5. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
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  6. Truman Capote _ Other Voices, Other Rooms

    I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.
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  7. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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  8. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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  9. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.
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  10. Emily Brontë _ Wuthering Heights

    But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. {Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw}
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  11. Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale

    Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.
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  12. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled
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