Togrowolder istorealizetheuniverseisCopernican, not Ptolemaic, and that self and the loved one do not form the epicentre of the solar system.

-Phillips, Edward O
  Sunday Best.

   The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

-Rogers,Will
  The Far Field,'Meditation at Oyster River'.

Oh heav'nly fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace That Anger's self I needs must kiss again.

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 73.

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Shepherd's Calendar,'To His Book'.

The function of literature through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and thehigh authorityof theself in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

-Trillin, Calvin Marshall
  Beyond Culture, introduction.

Pap warn't in a good humoröso he was his natural self.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness,VI.'On Being A Self Forever'.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, isgreater to onethanone's self is.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 48.

Compassed round by pleasure, sighed For independent happiness; craving peace, The central feeling of all happiness, Not as a refuge from distress or pain, A breathing-time, vacation, or a truce, But for its absolute self.

-Wordsworth,William
  'The Excursion', bk.3, l.380^5.