For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
I have never in all my life considered you other people.
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.