“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Oscar Wilde
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“Mastery passes often for egotism.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty”
Mark Twain
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