"I have been a selfish being all..." - Quote by Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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“I have no talent for certainty.”
“She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.”
“I was quiet but I was not blind.”
More on Selfishness
“Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.”
“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”
“That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.”