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• I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dog, Nice, Cat

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.640, Xist Publishing

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• Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Peacock

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Independent, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Passion, Love Is, Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas (1878). “The Three Musketeers”, p.83, ebookfreedom

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• The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Goal, Done

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• When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Winning, Facts

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• To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Love Is, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

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• When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

  William Faulkner

  Blow, Thinking, Blood

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clever, Kissing, Feet

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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• At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

  Janette Rallison

  Loneliness, Heart, People

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.30, Penguin

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• Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

  Anne Frank

  Tired, Thinking, Ideas

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.54, Bantam

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• The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Responsibility, Cost

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheating, Men, Greed

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402

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• Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

  Katherine Applegate

  Passionate, Violent, Hoping For The Best

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• I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

  Holly Black

  Sorry, Upset, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

  Dan Wells

  Would Be, Legs, Said

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

  Alan Bennett

  Easier, Pursuit, Feels

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• Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Sacrifice, Destiny, Men

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Caring, Social Taboos, Indulge In

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• Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Medicine, Special

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.11, Crown Business

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• It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Attention, Constant Love, Retarded

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• I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Want, Life Is, Resources

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• We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Long, Generous

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin

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• The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Firsts, Crystals, Action

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• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Destiny, Hands

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