“when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
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“The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.”
Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Context: The immediate technical cause of was the tearing of the fabric of the outer envelope; this fabric had apparently been embrittled by improper doping treatment. The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.
“there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble”
comforting thoughts
archy does his part (1935)
“Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
“Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.”
La jalousie naît toujours avec l'amour, mais elle ne meurt pas toujours avec lui.
Maxim 361.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton http://books.google.com/books?id=9_m6AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Half+the+trouble+about+the+modern+man+is+that+he+is+educated+to+understand+foreign+languages+and+misunderstand+foreigners%22&pg=PA322#v=onepage (1936)
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams" (Arren and Ged)
The History of Agnes de Castro, or the Force of Generous Love (1688).
“I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.”
Daniel Martin (1977)
Source: The Magus
Context: I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. I had been and remained, intensely depressed, but I had also been, and always would be, intensely false; in existentialist terms, inauthentic. I knew I would never kill myself, I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.