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is where we get our earliest lesson of life's essential unfairness.

*Narcissists, when their position has been exposed as false, arbitrary, or untenable, will suddenly become evasive, articulate half-truths, lie (actually, as much to themselves as others), flat-out contradict themselves (and to a degree that can leave the other person gaping!), and freely rewrite history (literally'and audaciously'making things up as they go along).

is an intensifier of the emotions. One can be more happy and also more unhappy there than in any other place.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town. Nancy Mitford

is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

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