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"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self."
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Source: Interview with Elisabeth Niebuhr (March 1961) in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Second Series, 1963.
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