The less you know yourself the more you think you do. Shy people are closet exhibitionists. I don't feel important enough to bother hating myself. It's silliness that prevents us shrivelling up. The difference between self-love and narcissism is that one is love of one's self, the other love of one's ego.
Nothing unites people as effectively as opposition to other people.
The perfect moment is one that does not look to a future moment, or to a past one. You have to build up the ego before you can analyse it. On sex, the sexes, relationships It's basic to human nature to want to change the people closest to you and equally natural that they vigorously resist this. A woman wants her man to break down the barriers and force her to get what she wants. Being married to a woman who always has cream on her face is like living in a house that is permanently under renovation.