You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
Anita Brookner
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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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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
Blaise Pascal
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Hailliard
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Oscar Wilde
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. Forbes
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian
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