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Updated: June 28, 2025
Some day, wandering about the muddy streets, when daily material joys shall have failed, you will find yourself seated disconsolately on a deserted bench at midnight. O men of marble! sublime egoists, inimitable reasoners, who have never given way to despair or made a mistake in arithmetic, if this ever happens to you, at the hour of your ruin you will remember Abelard when he lost Heloise.
But I say that there is spirit in lust, in hunger, in everything. When I want a drink my spirit wants it. Viola Holme's spirit a flame that will be blown out at death takes part in her love for that great brute Holme. And yet she's one of the most pronounced egoists in London." "Do you care to tell us any reason you may have for saying so?" said Sir Donald.
In both cases the fault is one of narrowness of range, of arbitrary exclusion. Egoists, then, are guilty of a kind of stupid provinciality. They are like those closet-philosophers whom Locke describes.
And then, certain of hearing myself echoed, I cried, delightedly: "Egoists should always be grateful and responsive, for gratitude is nothing but happiness prolonged by thought...." "Yes, that is the whole secret of the responsive soul: to have sufficient impetus not to stop the sensation at the place where the joy itself stops."
"And what am I like?" she asked indolently. "I'm hoping to know that better soon I merely guess now." "They say all women are egoists and some men." She breathed her soft inscrutable ripple of laughter. "Let me hasten to confess, and crave a picture of myself." "But the subject deserves an artist," he parried. "He's afraid," she murmured to the fire.
The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us. Love was exhausted with the satisfaction of sensuality. We stood face to face in our true light, like two egoists trying to procure the greatest possible enjoyment, like two individuals trying to mutually exploit each other.
All idealistic visionaries are typified in Don Quixote, all misers in Harpagon, all hypocrites in Tartufe, all egoists in Sir Willoughby Patterne, all clever tricksy women in Becky Sharp, all sentimentalists in Mr. Barrie's Tommy.
"The superfluous is an evident and unwarrantable violation of the people's rights; every man who has more than his wants call for, cannot use, and therefore he must only abuse." Whoever does not make over to the masses the excess of what is strictly necessary.... places himself in the rank of 'suspects. Rich egoists, you are the cause of our misfortunes!"
Sometimes, I am told, these securities paid interest for a year or so, and the suckers got their friends in while there were a few left bonds, I mean there are always suckers. Like other egoists, our client became careless as time went on and one day took it upon himself to issue a few hundred bonds in a company without holding a directors' meeting.
And yet she watched him rather than Dawes, and it seemed as if their three fates lay in his hands. She hated him for it. She seemed to understand better now about men, and what they could or would do. She was less afraid of them, more sure of herself. That they were not the small egoists she had imagined them made her more comfortable.
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