“It is a luxury to be understood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist

Source: CEO Talk | Brunello Cucinelli, Founder and Chief Executive https://www.businessoffashion.com/amp/articles/ceo-talk/ceo-talk-brunello-cucinelli-founder-chief-executive-brunello-cucinelli Imran Amed, Business of Fashion, 1 July 2014

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“Budget the luxuries first.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.”

Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer

Debate with Uruguayan presidential candidate Mr. Pedro Bordaberry. Zoom a la noticia, Canal NTN24 (1 July 2014)

“The past is the luxury of proprietors.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Nausea (1938)

“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)

“The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.”

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman

Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter IV, p. 397

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”

Trudi Canavan (1969) Australian writer

Source: Priestess of the White

“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”

Judith Butler book Undoing Gender

Source: Undoing Gender

“Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 448.

“It is a luxury to be understood.”

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