egoism

• In fact, it struck me that my egoism is an attempt to run away from that apparently absolute observation. —  finitum non capax infiniti
• It is political and commercial egoism which is the evil harbinger of war. —  Creative Unity
• I mean celibacy of the soul--egoism, in fact. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• Soon she finds herself relegated to the society and fellowship of her maid; her husband is less to her, is incapable of being other than less, amid those transcendant treasures of architecture, painting, and sculpture, than a hired guide or cicerone would be Soon follows the scene where her timid offer of humble service is thrown back with all the irritation of that absorbing egoism which is the very essence and life-in-death of the man. —  The Ethics of George Eliot's Works
• It is, I presume to suggest, a mysticism which is separated by no gulf from egoism--egoism of the highest order and the most spiritual character, but still egoism. —  Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality

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