If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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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 find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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Scarlatti
last night
locked in
the castle
of pride and
egotism
goes on two
legs
Webern
orchestrated a
sky the clouds
move to a
bass
on
an instrument not
an oboe, gray
on light-gray in
blue and green
goes by
on glass
Schoenberg
serenades with
a view through
to where
a girl
swings
her
body displaced
against the
pull of her
hands head-
high on the
ropes
night
before the night
before last
unlocked the castle
of pride and
egotism
bliss
clouds stand
and go by
poem by James Marcus Schuyler
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
quote by Ted Lindsay
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Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Proud to be self made,
An egotist's tall claim... at work
Invisible hands.
haiku by Mamta Agarwal
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Human Folly
The gods looked down upon the plebes
and roared a loud thunderous laugh.
Those arrogant humans never
Learn. They spend precious time flirting
Audaciously with foolishness;
They set their eyes toward heaven
And expect to achieve greatness.
By whose precious standards do they
Trust determining their greatness?
Their own supreme egotism
Suffices as their bellwether
And so therein lies their weakness
A trait exclusively human.
poem by Albert Ahearn
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Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
quote by George V. Higgins
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
quote by Barbara Stanwyck
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
quote by Barbara Stanwyck
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
quote by Charles de Gaulle
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
quote by Frank Leahy
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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