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Where is the man who has his own self, and not one made for him by others? Heredity and environment, society and suggestion, convention and education heavily contribute to forming an "I" that is not his own "I," to making a pseudo-individual that is not himself but passes for it.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 34