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Poor and well-educated girls, if afraid of the misery of poverty, had no other recourse than prostitution. They lacked a dowry, that indispensable requisite in many civilized families for honorable marriage and home-making. Accursed poverty!... It had weighed upon her life like a fatality. The men who had appeared good at first afterwards became poisoned, turning into egoists and wretches.
'I thought, began African Semenitch slowly, 'that there are three kinds of egoists; the egoists who live themselves and let others live; the egoists who live themselves and don't let others live; and the egoists who don't live themselves and don't let others live. Women, for the most part, belong to the third class. 'That's polite!
The ancestry of the tortured man had bequeathed him this condition of high civilization among their other bequests. Your withered contracted Egoists of the hut and the grot reck not of public opinion; they crave but for liberty and leisure to scratch themselves and soothe an excessive scratch.
Certainly he was not handsome, and his wife looked like him. Never was a couple better matched. Rogron liked good living and to be waited upon by pretty girls. He belonged to the class of egoists whose behavior is brutal; he gave way to his vices and did their will openly in the face of Israel.
Of these, first prize belongs to a cult of egotism fathered by the Napoleonic Idea, consciously assertive and self-conscious in Max Stirner's "The Ego and His Own," which engendered a swarm of imitators and plagiarists. Human beings are all incorrigible egoists more or less, furtive or frank. But social and religious codes curbed the most narcissistic of kings and conquerors.
But when Olivier held out his hand for the letter, Jacqueline crumpled it up and flung it down, and two great tears welled up into her eyes. Olivier took her hands. "What's the matter?" he asked, with some emotion. "Let me be!" she cried angrily. She went out. As she reached the door she cried: "Egoists!"
The lovers of solitude, self centered folk, egoists and searchers into the mysteries of their own souls Emerson, Hawthorne, Hecker and Margaret Fuller were out of place in this united association where each person wanted, first of all, to be in harmony with the common mind. The dance was so much a matter of course that no preparations were needed save the putting away of the tables and benches.
But you have been dining with one of the most finished egoists in London to-night." "Lady Holme?" said Sir Donald, shifting into the left-hand corner of the sofa. "Yes, Viola Holme, once Lady Viola Grantoun; whom I mustn't know any more." "I'm not sure that you are right, Carey," said Pierce, rather coldly. "What!" "Can a true and perfect egoist be in love?" "Certainly.
I believe there are no myths proper to Israel I do not see how such magnificent egoists could contract to the necessary state of awe and I do not know that there are any legends proper to Greece which are divorced from real myths. For where a myth is the incarnation of the spirit of natural fact, a legend is the embellishment of an historical event: a very different thing.
Though the individual Anarchist may regard a union of egoists as a postulate, or may desire fraternal Communism, yet each must determine for himself his connection with such a community.
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