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• But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, Grieving, People

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  Mi amor es egoísta. No puedo respirar sin ti.

  John Keats

  Love Is, Breathe, Without You

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.311, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Abuse, Individual, Unstable

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rebel, Earth, Tyranny

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• Le di un beso en la mejilla y me fui a buscar a Bobby Lee. A él le confié estar en la línea de fuego. Pero era más que eso: No me acostaba con Bobby Lee. No lo amaba. A veces el amor te hace egoísta. A veces te vuelve estúpido. A veces te recuerda por qué amas a tu arma.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Stupid, Sleep, Gun

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). "Cerulean Sins", p.229, Hachette UK

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• I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.

  Tom Waits

  Angel, Devil, Saint

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

  Abbi Glines

  Want, Being Selfish, Okay

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Simple, Order

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Lips, Mines, Brushing

  Kelley Armstrong (2016). “Otherworld Secrets: An Anthology”, p.272, Penguin

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• People were intrinsically selfish, and many hated the idea of a woman in charge of the Institute. They would not put themselves at risk for her. Only a few weeks ago he would have said the same thing about himself. Now, knowing Charlotte, he realized to his surprise, the idea of risking himself for her seemed an honor, as it would be to most Englishmen to risk themselves for the queen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Ideas, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  War, Light, Long

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• Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

  Tamora Pierce

  Hurt, Home, Fighting

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Odio esos programas de televisión en los que los personajes hablan de una cosa, como de su paciente en la mesa de operaciones (digamos que son médicos), y luego te das cuenta de que en realidad están hablando de ellos mismos. La operación a corazón abierto del paciente no es nada comparado con su propio corazón estropeado o lo que sea. Es egoísta. Y significa que no se están concentrando, lo cual es negligencia médica.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Hate, Mean, Heart

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). "Los fantasmas de Ashbury High", p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• Las personas egoístas son, en cierto modo, terriblemente capaces de grandes amores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Great Love, Way

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). "La obra completa de F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novelas, cuentos, poesía, artículos, cartas, obras de teatro y guiones: Del autor de El gran Gatsby, El lado del paraíso, Tierna es la noche, Hermosos y malditos, El amor del último magnate, El curioso caso de Benjamin Button y muchas otras obras notables", p.236, e-artnow

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• El amor siempre es paciente y bondadoso. El amor nunca es jactancioso ni engreído. Nunca es grosero ni egoísta. No se ofende ni es rencoroso.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jealous, Conceited, Love Is

  "Mensaje en una botella". Libro de Nicholas Sparks, 1 de abril de 1998.

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• It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think I have. People say I've given people courage. That makes me feel good, but I don't see how I do that. I think my running is a selfish thing. But it provides the challenge that allows me to feel good about myself. How can I expect to do well in other activities if I don't feel good about myself?

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Thinking, Impact

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• In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

  James E. Faust

  Change, Thinking, Years

  James E. Faust (1990). "Reach Up for the Light", Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• La ausencia de gratitud es la marca de una mente estrecha e inculta. Revela una falta de conocimiento y la ignorancia de la autosuficiencia. Se expresa en un feo egoísmo y, con frecuencia, en una maldad gratuita. Hemos visto nuestras playas, nuestros parques, nuestros bosques llenos de feos desperdicios de aquellos que evidentemente no aprecian su belleza. He conducido a través de miles de acres de tierra ennegrecida azotada por un incendio provocado evidentemente por un fumador descuidado cuya única preocupación había sido el placer egoísta obtenido de un cigarrillo.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Playa, Gratitud, Agradecimiento

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• This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

  George Crabbe

  Wise, Kings, Book

  George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29

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• En última instancia, no puede haber libertad para uno mismo a menos que se garantice para los demás; no puede haber seguridad donde hay miedo, y una sociedad democrática presupone confianza y franqueza en las relaciones de los hombres entre sí y una colaboración entusiasta para los fines más amplios de la vida en lugar de la persecución de objetivos mezquinos, egoístas o vanagloriosos.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Men, Collaboration

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• The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Thinking, Joy, Growth

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). "Las enseñanzas de Ezra Taft Benson", Bookcraft Pubs

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• Cuando un maestro del futuro venga a señalar a la juventud de América cómo pueden obtenerse las más altas recompensas del intelecto y la devoción, puede decirles, no por medio de la sutileza y la intriga; no por medio de la manipulación y la demagogia; no por medio de las artes de la popularidad; no por medio de la habilidad y el desvío en el seguimiento de la conveniencia; sino siendo firme en la devoción a los principios de la hombría y la aplicación de la moral y el coraje de la rectitud en la vida pública de nuestro país; siendo un hombre sin engaño y sin miedo, sin egoísmo, y con devoción al deber, devoción a su país.

  Elihu Root

  País, Profesor, Coraje

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• ¿Por qué es inmoral que tú desees, pero moral que otros lo hagan? ¿Por qué es inmoral producir un valor y conservarlo, pero moral regalarlo? Y si no es moral para ti conservar un valor, ¿por qué es moral para los demás aceptarlo? Si tú eres desinteresado y virtuoso cuando lo das, ¿no son ellos egoístas y viciosos cuando lo toman?

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Desire, Selfless

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.31, Penguin

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• Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

  Ayn Rand

  Names, History, Horror

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”

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• A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Comfort, Cost

  Albert Camus (1960). "Colección de ficción"

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