Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that ent...hralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has b...een abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t...o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may b...ecome so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense b...ecause one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »