#narcissist

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic. ↗

— Bjork

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Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. ↗

— Sam Vaknin

#narcissists #love

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

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I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grudge #hold-a-grudge #life #narcissistic #experience

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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