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There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

And who are you? Said he.öDon't puzzle me, said I.

—Sterne, Laurence

I've been in Who's Who and I know what's what, but it's the first time I ever made the dictionary.

—West, Mae

When you retire†you go from who's who to who's that.

—Wriston,Walter Bigelow

Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine¤   a'   se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re¤  alite¤  ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f

—Fanon, Frantz Omar

   I didn't know Whoöor whatöput the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someoneöor Somethingöand from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl