Who said “If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people…”?

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

“The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.”

“Mastery passes often for egotism.”

“Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.”

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

“To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense — and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) — but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. ... Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.”

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”