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• s  characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

• Rich, languid, self-hating, self-loving, he can make a claim shared by only a handful of Hollywood veterans.
• Psychologist Maslow, for example, once wrote that he found it difficult "to conceive of feeling proud of myself, self-loving and self-respecting, if I were working, for example .

• egotistic
• egotistical
• narcissistic

News & Articles

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• Theater Review: 'Buyer and Cellar' -- 3.5 stars
  Who would ever have imagined that “My Passion for Design,” Barbra Streisand’s self-loving 2010 book about the architecture, construction and decorating of her various homes, would inspire one of the most well-constructed, savvy and thoroughly hilarious one-man shows in years.
  Aug. 30, 2013 - amNewYork

Quotes

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• Elle Macpherson in Daily Telegraph
  That's why I'm so hesitant to give advice,Macpherson says. "I believe that what works for me may not work for you. I think the most important thing is that I'm self-loving. I honour and respect other people's opinions, but what people...
• Gilad Atzmon in Aljazeera.net
  Atzmon writes: "We are dealing here with a uniquely and seriously disturbed immature nation. We are dealing with a self-loving narcissistic child .......... The more the Israelis love themselves and their delusional phantasmic innocence, the more...
• Alice Walker in Philadelphia Daily News
  She was the healthy side of black life, that which was pretty much absent from Richard Wright, whom I also love very deeply,says novelist Alice Walker of Hurston, describing her as a "very vibrant, self-loving spirit."