If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Fr… - Wallace Stevens

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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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