#narcissism

To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced. ↗

— Emmanuel Lévinas

#narcissism #philosophy #inspirational

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

If you come a little closer you will see that I am depicted as having three penises. Of course I’m not insinuating that I actually have three penises or even two. I have one. This is called symbolism. Is it symbolic in the sense that making love to me feels like I have three penises? Again, I can’t answer that, but probably, yeah. ↗

— Colin Nissan

#humor #narcissism #self-portrait #funny

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ↗

— Andre Dubus

#element #how #important #look #narcissism

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#humble #love #loves #narcissism #part

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did. ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#age

Kill me if I ever look that Bad" . . . "Dude, what are you saying? . . . On the TV? That is you, dude. From like five years ago. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#narcissism #humor

Love without sacrifice is like theft ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#love #manipulation #marriage #marriage-advice #narcissism

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#mirrors #narcissism #technology #love