solipsist

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For a solipsist ( "apres moi, rien") tragedy is only personal inconvenience.

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  • The solipsist, therefore, if he is to attain the logical safety of which he is in search, will be confined to what I call ‘solipsism of the moment’. —  My Philosophical Development
  • No solipsist has ever gone as far as this, and therefore every solipsist has been inconsistent in accepting inferences about himself which have no better warrant than inferences about other people and things. —  My Philosophical Development
  • I once suggested to him that he came near being a solipsist, a word he probably had never heard of till then, as he never studied psychology, modern or otherwise. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • But she said it in a smug way that seemed a bit solipsist / delusional.
  • It makes Milk's motto, "Privacy is the enemy," a bizarre proposition coming from a solipsist-artiste. —  New York Press
 

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  1. from Latin solus, alone, + ipse, self, + -ist.
 

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