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If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, i'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
-Hanif Kureishi
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If Jealousy Was The Vindaloo Of Love,

Hanif Kureishi
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, i'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks jealousy. jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. jealous love is no more like true love than mr hyde was like dr jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.
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In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. you can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. and is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? and does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "so what you're saying is . . . i shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. of course you should," said one-eye gently. "but don't be surprised if the fire plays back.
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It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of christ in the gospel concentrates the rays of god's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. ... through the glass of his incarnation he concentrates the rays of his divine truth and love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the man christ.
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Flailing and thrashing, buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since david of galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor saul's cactus outshone his own. (originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. it was a very long and very green night.
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