Because part of me is human, and my human self wants to fit in.

For Desmond the human self always lives in what he calls the ethos.

Then he was through; freed from his normal, human self.

How important, ultimately, is the everyday human self to these writers?

Now my brothers' human selves were indeed just that, just a memory, until I should bring them back.

You must wash off the smell of your human self.

You can change back to your old human self.

For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become.

"Had you turned on me, I doubt that you would ever have been able to find your human self again."

Do not be attached to your old human self.