egoist

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It even links to modern artistic conventions, since Dürer — an ambitious egoist who monogrammed almost everything he made — was the first artist to use media as a branding tool.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2016

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

While Mr. Thomas’s Timon thinks nothing of hurling his own excrement at one of his unwanted supplicants, beneath the repellent exterior can still be glimpsed the bruised egoist of the first acts.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011

Baudelaire is an egoist He hated the sentimental sapping of altruism.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles