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It is too simple to
think of the narcissist as someone in love with himself. One
can detest oneself intimately and still be a narcissist.
Mailer on Henry Miller: “The narcissist suffers from too
much inner dialogue. The eye of one’s consciousness is
forever looking at one’s own action…The narcissist is not
self-absorbed as much as one self-absorbed in studying the
other. The narcissist is the scientist and the experiment in
one…It is not love of the self but dread of the world
outside the self which is the seed of narcissism.” I
recognize this in myself; the less confident I am, the more
intense my narcissism becomes.
-- Kenneth
Tynan, Diaries
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