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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through
a microscope.
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-Josh Billings
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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire
is to love with the mind.
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-Théophile Gautier
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way
of saving one's ego except by love.
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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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*There is other applause
besides handclapping. . .
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-Lorenzo Smythe, the hero in Robert Heinlein's
Double Star, 1956
Chapter 10
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*What you feel in the presence
of a thing you admire is just one word-'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance,
the sign of admission. And that 'Yes' is more than an answer to one thing,
it's a kind of 'Amen' to life, to the earth that holds this thing, to the
thought that created it, to yourself for being able to see it.
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-Howard Roark, a hero in Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Pt. Four, "Howard Roark", Ch. 4
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The best emotions to write out of are anger and
fear or dread. . . .The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration
. . .because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive
contemplative mood.
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-Susan Sontag
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