Quote by Julio Cortazar
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himsel

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. – Julio Cortazar

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. – Julio Cortazar

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen

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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a mans self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, – Charles Lamb

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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

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