Quotes on narcissism

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

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Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay.. Cats were all about using people

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The faculty to think objectively is ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.

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True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

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I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

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