All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. - Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

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Disillusions all come from within. . . from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

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Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

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Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

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There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

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An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

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