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«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 miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.»
Author: Germaine Greer | About: Love | Keywords: egotism, fantasy, induced, masking, miseries, mythology, postures, sentimental, welter, weltering, wretched
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee | Keywords: closely, egotism, excessive, morbid, self-consciousness, selves, sensibilities, sensibility, sensitiveness, The Cure
«Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: egotism, or else, selfishness
«Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.»
Author: Helen Rowland | About: Marriage | Keywords: anaesthetic, egotism, extracted, extracting, extracts, operation, vanity
«Mastery passes often for egotism.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: egotism, mastery, passes
«Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Obedience | Keywords: cowardly, egotism, pitiful
«Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, she wanders around the world, but her wealth and property will not go with her.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: egotism, practicing, wanders
«People are incarnated in heaven and in hell. In egotism, they come and go.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: Come and Go, egotism, incarnate, incarnated
«Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Religion | Keywords: chapter, egotism, monumental
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