#vanity

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[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.


Alain de Botton


#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.


John Derbyshire


#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.


William Faulkner


#writing-advice #vanity

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.


Johnny Depp


#era #interview #magazine-interview #quote #time

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.


Henri Bergson


#fault #laughable #laughter #only #vanity

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#herd #influence #need #out #sake

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.


Peter Coyote


#begin #bodies #body #care #cross

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.


Mary Wortley


#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?


Vincent Van Gogh


#become #boyhood #men #must #our

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.


Richard Griffiths


#feeling #form #i #might #physical