Here’s what writers through the ages have had to say about how human beings employ masks in their lives.
“Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?”
Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
“Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“No one can wear a mask for very long.”
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
“Boldness can mask great fear.”
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39 AD - 65 AD)
“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”
Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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