Carpaccio de Hoggart

For most, self-love produces constant anxiety about one's place. So we pick up early, and go on acquiring, multiple signs of where we are and where we should by now like to be, and beyond. The entanglements are immense and affect home, neighbours, friends, professional colleagues, almost everyone we meet.

Hoggart, Richard (2005) Promises to Keep. Thoughts in Old Age. London & New York: Continuum, p. 81.