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Quote by Marcel Proust
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism:

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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