inner self
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As if unwilling to reveal anything of his inner self, Dillon kept his desktop bare save for a pencil, a notebook and a telephone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Second, he was compensating for his personal, characterological feeling of powerlessness – asserting unlimited future power to convince his doubting inner self to “fake it ‘til he makes it.”
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
During seizures, the patient said, he would enter a strange state of dissociation that caused him to lose his sense of coordination and feel disconnected with his inner self.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 12, 2023
Less effective is Kate’s part of the story because we know so little about her inner self — and because it adds another confusing logistical aspect to the time-loop plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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