#self mythologizing

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I am myself a myth about myself. Who I am has nothing to do with it.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

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He often found himself . . . tending to his ever-evolving image, the mirage of himself growing fainter and fainter before disappearing entirely.

Peter Kispert, from I Know You Know Who I Am

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We are all myths to ourselves.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

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He'd sink with a certain sensuousness into the image of himself as an awful man, a heartless man, which would prove, over time, an easier man for him to be.

Michael Cunningham, from A Wild Swan