Sam Vaknin quotes
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“Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.”
-- Sam VakninSource : Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing
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“The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.”
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“The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.”
-- Sam VakninSource : Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.261, Narcissus Publishing
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“The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.”
-- Sam VakninSource : Sam Vaknin (2005). “Diary of a Narcissist”, p.90, Narcissus Publishing
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“The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.”
-- Sam Vaknin
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“Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.”
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“Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...”
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“A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.”
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“Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.”
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“Love is not a contract between two narcissists.”
Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
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