Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life i

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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