The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. (Marcel Proust)

The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Marcel Proust

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