secret self
Example Sentences
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Did the 16-year-old boy who wrote that calendar also have a secret self?
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2018
To guard one’s secret self, in other words, from slavemasters in the old days, and today from government lackeys, international aid workers, outsiders, reporters, et al.
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2017
Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images This burden of fraudulence, of needing to keep some lumbering secret self forever under wraps, was not merely a matter of class anxiety.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013
It appeared as though "mass psychoanalysis" was eroding the heart's privacy, that secret self shown to be just another carbon-copy of your neighbour's secrets.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012
What are her thoughts, her emotions, her secret self?
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
