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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
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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
Geoff Mulgan
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Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you
Dennis Prager
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Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
John Oliver
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Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
Ayelet Waldman
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Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.
Erich Fromm
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I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.
Tom Robbins
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The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.
Mason Cooley
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I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
Moby
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Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Mason Cooley
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When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
Marianne Faithfull
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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
Elia Kazan
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[Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.
David Krieger
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
Graham Greene
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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Epictetus
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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
Bill Vaughan
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No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
Tucker Max
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Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
Dave Anthony
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I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.
Anne Lamott
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I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.
Mireille Enos
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My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.
Jay Baruchel
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It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.
Luke Timothy Johnson
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I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
Charles Kuralt
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For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
John Steinbeck
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There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.
Bernard Goldberg
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Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.
Don McCullin
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Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.
Bryan Fuller
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As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.
Rose Byrne
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I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
Scott D. Anthony
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The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
Gena Showalter
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I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.
Michael Ian Black
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Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
Claude Cahun
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Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?
Gena Showalter
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I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.
Jim Gaffigan
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Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
Bill Ayers
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Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.
Devon Monk
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No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.
Will Wright
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I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you'll have to ask him about that.
Bradford Cox
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In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.
Robert Jay Lifton
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When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.
Jim Gaffigan