A Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
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Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
to despise. Nor to despise the other.
Not to despise the it. To make this relation
with the it: to know that I am it.
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
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