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“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“When I'm with artists I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful, and then I go out into the streets and the first child I meet with its poor, hungry,...” Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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