“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity.”
“Eternity and Eternity,” p. 32
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
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