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 … - Mary McCarthy

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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. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.