Quotes with sensitiveness

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• Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

  Alfred Adler
  Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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• 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
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-consciousness
• sensibilities
• sensibility
• sufferings
• increasing
• themselves

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