Stoned or not, this type USES themselves as the basic element in their fantasy world. Consequently, they tend to make very self-indulgent frameworks to inhabit.

沉瘾或者不沉瘾，这些人把他们当做自己幻想世界里的基础元素。因此，他们倾向于纵容自己活在构造中。

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When we were in school he was a famous unconventional, and self-indulgent old-style intellective. Now he is more unrestrained, distinctive, and not punctilious.

上学那会儿，他就是我们班里有名的名士派，如今他更加潇洒独特不拘小节了。

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Music was cathartic, something I reverted to and expressed what I was going through, hopefully not in a self-indulgent, 'get the violin strings out' kind of way, but [something] more ambiguous.

音乐可以净化人的内心，我要找回我自己并且告诉人们我经历的一切； 希望自己不要堕落，就像弦断人亡那样，可有些事我也说不清楚。

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Perhaps he has relaxed too much, even allowing himself to be self-indulgent, if not self-preening see, for example, the two poems in which he hits back at his critics.

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But then I realized that a blog, by definition, is inherently self-indulgent, is it not?

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It is also far more gripping, not least because it is told in the vulnerable but never self-indulgent voice of somebody who loves this part of Turkey, and has a soft spot for all the peoples who have lived, loved, died and killed there.

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