The Egotist Considers: Vain Musings of a Personage
"We have to do it because we're not personalities, but personages... Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on.But while a personality is active, it overrides 'the next thing.' Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he's done. He's a bar on which a thousand things have been hung, glittering things sometimes, as ours are; but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them."