modesty

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.'
Paul Bowles

Come visit me in Buenes Aires, I'll show you my library and you won't find a single book of mine. I'm very sure of this - I choose my books. Who am I to find my way into the neighbourhood of Sir Thomas Browne or of Emerson? I'm nobody.
Jorge Luis Borges