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“an individual is not automatically a self, but has to become one. A human being merely embodies the possibility of becoming a self. According to existentialism, there is no ‘true core’ that an individual always already ‘is’ or ‘has’, and which underlies selfhood. Becoming a self is the task of human life. A human being has to integrate his individual limitations and possibilities into a unified existence; this is the process of developing a self.”
― Allard Pieter den Dulk, Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature