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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. — John Keats
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. — Marilyn Monroe
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its… — George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning… — Tom Stoppard
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. — Margaret Thatcher
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. — E. O. Wilson
If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's… — Julian Baggini
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the… — Colm Toibin
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. — Jasper Fforde
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to… — Ayn Rand
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an… — Tom Hodgkinson
The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say… — C.S. Lewis
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening… — Alan Watts
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance,… — Eckhart Tolle
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life,… — Rick Warren
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and… — Jasper Fforde
If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but… — Martine Leavitt
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with… — Khaled Hosseini
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the… — Neal Stephenson
He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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