Personality (n.) grows weak from nature's one way of coping with too much — embracing everything as lightly as possible so as to expel it quickly, until real things are no longer taken seriously.
Personality (n.) in its free form has never been commended so volubly as now, when none is to be seen — nothing but anxiously muffled identical people in the identical bourgeois coat.
Personality (n.) was once something lofty men desired NOT to have — to vanish into a great type, "to be a city," to continue a great master was their ambition.
Personality (n.) is the rarest thing a deed expresses: a class, a race, an environment, an accident — anything is more likely to be expressed in a deed than a personality.
Personality (n.) is rare and almost antinatural: some men are several personalities, most are none — it needs early isolation, a life of defense, something like incarceration, and low impressionability.