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...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… — Fernando Pessoa
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man — Honore de Balzac
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to… — Sarah Vowell
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. — Machado de Assis
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it… — William Shakespeare
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought… — Peter Carey
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature… — Philip Pullman
Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot… — Kage Baker
In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And… — Sarah MacLean
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to… — Albert Camus
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,… — Arnold Bennett
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and… — Jim Morrison
Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me — William Shakespeare
The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite.… — Miley Cyrus
Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at the Summer Queen… — Melissa Marr
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high… — Cassandra Clare
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or… — Caroline Myss
He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped… — Neil Gaiman

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