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Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend. -- Edward Dahlberg
Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love. -- Mason Cooley
I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus. -- Steven Wright
Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?. -- Edward Young
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. -- Allen Tate
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal. -- Charles Baudelaire
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy. -- Pope Francis
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew. -- Robert Greene
From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers. -- Charles Baudelaire
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus. -- Tom Stoppard
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. -- W. H. Auden
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected. -- Paulo Coelho
Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others. -- Jean Lorrain
It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror. -- Paul Verhaeghe
Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. "Who are you?" "I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy. -- Rick Riordan
What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this.""Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that. -- Rick Riordan
That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears. -- Jane Alison
History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its deep mysterious waters. Many of us drown in it just like the mythological Narcissus, whose infatuation with his own beauty was stronger than his survival instincts. -- Yanko Tsvetkov
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus. -- Jasper Fforde
In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus. -- Hilda Doolittle
If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul. -- Nazr Mohammed
He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul. -- Galen
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other. -- John Walford
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself. -- Michael Ondaatje

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