egoist
Example Sentences
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Having killed off the kernel of sweetness at the heart of the young man who’d written “Goodbye, Columbus,” he was free to explore the writer not just as egoist, but as stag-on-the-make, as bachelor-king.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021
But she is also an insufferable egoist, a masochistic martyr and, when it comes right down to it, a pragmatist who is less innocent of worldly dealings than she lets on.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2015
The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.
From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014
It was, he said, "an utter egoist preoccupied solely with its own appearance".
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2012
The egoist is so deluded by the principle of individuation that he supposes an absolute cleft between his own person and all others.
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
