"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."

Self, Identity, Ego, Existence

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"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."

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"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."

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"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."

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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

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"Since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present."

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