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Virginia Woolf quotesIt is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. - Woolf, Virginia
Karl Kraus quotesThe world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original. - Kraus, Karl
Eric Hoffer quotesSelf-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Eric Hoffer quotesNo matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
William Hazlitt quotesWe can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
Doris Lessing quotesIt is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
William James quotesSuccess plus self-esteem equals pretensions.