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1. To forgive is never to forget. But to remember is
not necessarily to re-experience.
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2. Pathological narcissism is a life-long pattern of traits and behaviours
which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self to the exclusion of
all others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of one's gratification,
dominance and ambition.
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3. Narcissus is not in love with himself. He is in love with his reflection.
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4. The narcissist is an actor in a monodrama, yet he is forced to remain
behind the scenes. The scenes take centre stage, instead.
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5. The narcissist ages without mercy and without grace. His withered body and
his overwrought mind betray him all at once.
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6. Children, to the narcissist, are both mirrors and competitors. They
reflect authentically his constant need for adulation and attention. Their
grandiose fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience are crass caricatures of
his internal world.
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7. In the narcissist's surrealistic world, even language is pathologized. It
mutates into a weapon of self-defence, a verbal fortification, a medium
without a message, replacing words with duplicitous and ambiguous vocables.
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8. The narcissist's lies are not goal-orientated. This is what makes his
constant dishonesty both disconcerting and incomprehensible. The narcissist
lies at the drop of a hat, needlessly, and almost ceaselessly.
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9. The narcissist holds his sycophantic acolytes in contempt. He finds his
fans, admirers, and followers repulsive and holds them to be inferior.
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10. The narcissist is never whole without an adoring, submissive, available, self-denigrating
partner. His very sense of superiority, indeed his False Self, depends on it.
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11. The narcissist identifies being loved with being possessed, encroached
upon, shackled, transformed, reduced, exploited, weakened, engulfed, digested
and excreted.
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12. Psychopathic and narcissistic abusers hate it when other people are
happy. Besieged by gnawing inadequacy, the narcissistic abuser does his best
to destroy everybody else's celebratory mood.
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13. Raging narcissists usually perceive their reaction to have been triggered
by an intentional provocation with a hostile purpose.
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14. Deep inside, the narcissist hates himself and doubts his own worth. He
deplores his desperate addiction to Narcissistic Supply. He judges his
actions and intentions harshly and sadistically.
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15. When narcissism fails as a defense mechanism, the narcissist develops
paranoid narratives: self-directed confabulations which place him at the
center of others' allegedly malign attention.
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