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• Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Spring, Monsters

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• The egotism of woman is always for two.

  Madame de Stael

  Two

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• There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Interesting, Opponents

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• The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

  Samuel Smiles

  Doors, Next, Fanatics

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.229

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• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Vanity

  Source: bigthink.com

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• As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

  Pierre Corneille

  Self, Feelings, Cynicism

  "Character: Cornélie". "La Mort de Pompée" by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene ii, 1642.

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• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

  Roy Baumeister

  Self Esteem, Light, Views

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• A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Psychics, Two

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• [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Long, People

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mistake, Men, Self

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.331

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• Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own people. But they are the ones that prevail because they have the economic power, the political power and the military power.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Dream, Military, Perfect

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

  Jean Toomer

  Faults, Impatience

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• Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

  Mason Cooley

  Baby, Self, Resentment

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• In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Consciousness, Good Company

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.48, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Hate, Loving Yourself

  "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment".

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• Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reality, Abuse, Favors

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• They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

  Mika

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

  Guru Gobind Singh

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• The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Unhappy

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

  Edie Brickell

  Reflection, Spoons

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• Mastery is often taken for egotism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Mastery, Masters

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• Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Muzzle, Rate

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