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Clashing vanities. Two people with equally great vanity retain a bad impression of one another after they meet, because each one was so busy with the impression he wanted to elicit in the other that the other made no impression on him; finally both notice that their efforts have failed and blame the other for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human
Section Six: Man in Society - Aphorism # 338

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