How native speakers pronounce “narcissism”

And that is the whole point here. Self-love, properly understood, not as narcissism, but as having your own back,

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So the ancient artist was protected from certain things, like, for example, too much narcissism, right? If your work was brilliant, you couldn't take all the credit for it,

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