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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and… — Wallace Stevens
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. — Taylor Swift
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. — Orson Welles
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. — Oscar Wilde
LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. — Mina Loy
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though… — Graham Greene
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in… — Albert Einstein
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. — William James
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must… — Gustave Flaubert
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer
[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… — Thornton Wilder
What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? — Kazuya Minekura
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding. — Ilona Andrews
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any… — Kingsley Amis
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present… — Victor Hugo
To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to… — Garth Stein
Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter… — Gore Vidal
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. — Hermann Hesse
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. — Rick Yancey

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