"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-- Oscar Wilde
"The dichotomy between selfishness and unselfishness disappears altogether in healthy people because in principle each act is both selfish and unselfish."
-- Abraham Maslow
"Grief is so selfish."
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"The more self-centered and selfish we are, the less we see."
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