The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
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Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus. The true paradises are the lost paradises.
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