"Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity." — Marianne Moore

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• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous… — Alan Ball
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• A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom… — Roseanne Barr
• The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
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• At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life… — Annie Besant
• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are… — Jello Biafra
• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one… — Theodor Adorno

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