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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

    (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: disappointment, disillusionment, gilding, idols, touch
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: detachment, idolatry, idols, love-disappointment
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    Paul Beatty
    “Hereos. Idols. They're never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there's something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.”
    ― Paul Beatty, Slumberland
    tags: dj-darky, heroes, humor, idols
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  • #4
    Louisa May Alcott
    “The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
    tags: idols, jo-s-boys, louisa-may-alcott
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  • #5
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “It is in refusing to recognize that we worship something that we move from the worship of that thing to slavery to that thing.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: denial, god, idols, justification, refusal, refusing, slavery, worship
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  • #6
    Lang Leav
    “Idols

    You put her on a pedestal. Love her, adore her, crown her
    as your queen. Then you watch and wait, for a slip, a split
    second when her guard is down. You would tear her into
    pieces just to claim a fragment of her story.
    No one can be perfect all the time. Why do you expect her to
    be any different? Why is she held to an impossible standard?
    Why do you take it so personally when she contradicts the
    version of herself that exists only in your head?
    You think you know her, that she owes you somehow. That
    her existence is only relative to yours. But she is her own
    person. She lives and breathes, she hopes and dreams. She has
    a life, a love, a family, a purpose. And she doesn’t owe anyone
    a damn thing.”
    ― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You
    tags: idols
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes off on the hands.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: alienation, classics, idols, love, relationships
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  • #8
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: bible, bow, christian, christianity, deceit, deception, fabrication, false-gods, falsehood, fiction, fictional, god, idol, idolatry, idols, illusion, king, sin, sinful-false, throne, worship, worshiping
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  • #9
    T.F. Hodge
    “If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: authenticity, external-influences, follow, followers, idol-worship, idols, influence, internalizing, self-esteem, self-love, soulful, values
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  • #10
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: art, idols
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  • #11
    Amaka Imani Nkosazana
    “Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”
    ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
    tags: actions, advantage, anxious, author, belief, believe, careful, cautious, choices, consequences, create, debate, decisions, desires, devotion, earth, earthly-things, faith, fake, fear, fearful, fiction, forgiveness, happiness, harm, honest, hope, idols, incomplete, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, joy, kindness, life-lessons, love, man, notable, open, own, past, people, pleasures, possessions, quotes, reign, shame, soul, spirit, spirituality, subject, superficial, temporal, things, trophy, trust, trustworthy, wise-words, wishes, woman, worship
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  • #12
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
    tags: divinity, idols, worship
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: build, create, false-gods, god, gods, idols, selfish
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  • #14
    “Best revenge? Smile, be happy and never let them know it hurt.”
    ― KARA Goo Hara
    tags: hara, idols, kara, korea, kpop
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  • #15
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Rise like Lions after slumber
    In unvanquishable number-
    Shake your chains to earth like
    dew
    Which in sleep had fallen on you
    Ye are many-they are few.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester
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