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is an epistle addressed to the public through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

*Narcissists alone are blatant in their self-inflation and braggadocio'leavened with a necessary dose of self-deception.

is a piece of writing that hangs somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: This is what I think, and this is what I am.

*A narcissist is someone who has a grandiose sense of self-importance, harbors obsessive fantasies of unbounded glory, feels rage or intense shame when criticized, expects special favors, and lacks empathy.

is essentially the biography of a thought, allowing cognition itself'its circuitry and obsessiveness, its 'moments of being,' to play out on the page.

*The narcissistic organization becomes a moral universe of its own, a world where its goals, goodness, and means are not questioned but taken as holy writ. It's a world where doing whatever we need to, to get whatever we want, seems perfectly fine.

*There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step, which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'What mistake'''

is a grown-up version of the tie-breakers in supermarket quizzes: Complete the line 'I think history is bunk because'.' in not more than 10,000 words.

*The fantasy world of Narcissists can have a seductive allure that promises to envelop you in its specialness. Their superficial charm can be enchanting, and they often appear complicated, colorful, and exciting as they draw you into their narcissistic web.

*The persona that many narcissists present to the world often comes across to others as a 'superiority complex.' But behind the mask of arrogance is a fragile internal balloon of self-esteem that is never satisfied with being good or even very good'if they are not better than, they are worthless.

is a loose sally of the mind... an irregular indigested piece... not a regular and orderly composition.

*Narcissism is eye trouble, voluntary blindness, an agreement to keep up appearances (hence the importance of 'style') and not to look beneath the surface.

is a genre that goes back four hundred years to Montaigne, and yet it seems a mercurial, newfangled, sometimes hokey affair that has lent itself to many of the excesses of the age, from spurious autobiography to spurious hallucination, as well as to the shabby careerism of traditional journalism.

*Narcissism is often the driving force behind the desire to obtain a leadership position.

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