How odd, I sometimes feel that a shadow-self has taken me over.

"…How odd, I sometimes feel that a “shadow-self” has taken me over. A superficial though charming — I suppose charming! — “social” personality. But the deeper person, the spirit, the psyche, remains stubbornly hidden."

^{― Joyce Carol Oates [Artwork by Yeong Ja Jung, Exposure on the Mirror (1980)]}