We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: art admiration utility uselessness



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I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

Donald Miller

Tags: love admiration unrequited-love



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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

Suzanne Collins

Tags: jealousy strategy admiration frustration anger surprise



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He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

Takayuki Yamaguchi

Tags: inspiration murder heart jealousy human-nature mankind enemies admiration antipathy envy rivalry love-hate-relationship



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Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Tags: love admiration horses superiority hero-worship riding



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He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasn’t a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out from under the Anti-Zionist army’s nose. She’d taken his hand, thrown herself down a sand dune on a dare, and then beaten him back up it. She’d glared at him and refused to part from his side. A coward?
“Never,” he said again.

V.S. Carnes

Tags: love courage admiration



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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Jeannette Walls

Tags: life inspirational admiration quality



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Taped on the wall was a hand-drawn picture- a stick figure with a bow on the head holding a litterbag.

Suzanne Crowley

Tags: love admiration touching



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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Albert Einstein

Tags: children admiration letter hero correspondence compliment heroic



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There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration.

Lionel Suggs

Tags: admiration irrationality



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