“I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong, but what should I do?”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
On A Plain.
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
“The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake.”
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, II, preliminary poem (1908)
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That was indeed agreat benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
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