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In the mornings they left home together, separating in the Place d'Etoile. At seven in the evening they met here, greeting each other with a kiss, like lovers who meet for the first time; and then after supper, they returned to their nest in the rue de la Pompe. All Argensola's attempts at friendliness with these neighbors were repulsed because of their self-centredness.
What right good heavens! had Gerald to feel injured? She almost laughed again as she looked at him and at this unveiling of his sublime self-centredness.
He reflected that after the chloroform had done its work, they would be well cared for in Kentucky, much better off than they had ever been under his doubtful protection; that Eddy might grow up to be a better man than his father, that Charlotte would marry down there, that they would all be comfortable, and in the intense and abnormal self-centredness of the mood which was upon him, that mood which leads a man to escape from his own agony of life by the first exit, that awful hunger for the beyond of his own soul, he never gave a thought to the possible sufferings of his family, to their possible grief at the loss of him.
For nine or ten months they have been thinking of what they could do for her. Sometimes girls do not realize the actual need of help and of companionship which those at home feel, and the older people are too unselfish to force this need upon their juniors. Between the unselfishness of those who are older and the self-centredness of those who are younger, there is often sad havoc made in a home.
I will therefore end these thoughts on our present discontents with two messages of courage and confidence, one from Chaucer, the other from Blake. The sentiment of patriotism has seemed to many to mark an arrest of development in the psychical expansion of the individual, a half-way house between mere self-centredness and full human sympathy.
Erasmus's character: Need of purity and cleanliness Delicacy Dislike of contention, need of concord and friendship Aversion to disturbance of any kind Too much concerned about other men's opinions Need of self- justification Himself never in the wrong Correlation between inclinations and convictions Ideal image of himself Dissatisfaction with himself Self-centredness A solitary at heart Fastidiousness Suspiciousness Morbid mistrust Unhappiness Restlessness Unsolved contradictions of his being Horror of lies Reserve and insinuation
I say that all through the historical age behind us there has been evidence even though scattered of salvation and the return of the Cosmic life. Man has never been so completely submerged in the bitter sea of self-centredness but what he has occasionally been able to dash the spray from his eyes and glimpse the sun and the glorious light of heaven.
"I wish 'all the family' would try to think about themselves for just a little while! There's entirely too little self-centredness among my relatives to suit me!" "Why, it's only because you're related to me that I pay the very slightest attention to what goes on here," Florence protested. "It's my own grandfather's house, isn't it?
This is the very opposite to a selfish self-centredness; it, is the centre where we find that we both receive from all and flow out to all.
She looked at him with those blue, ecstatic eyes, so oblivious to his pain that for a moment a sort of impersonal amazement at such self-centredness held him silent. But after the first shock he spoke with a slow fluency that pierced Athalia's egotism and stirred an answering astonishment in her.
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