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No man can know his deliverer, nor yet the thief of his soul. Their faces are covered; they swirl in the mob at the masquerade ball. Wine flows, and dance follows dance, and we are never certain of their names until that Midnight when all masks are removed
When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more ... protecting themselves.
A Fake Friend is an enemy in disguise.
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking
but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.
What you do is you hide your deep need to hide, and you do this out of the need to appear to other people as if you have the strength not to care how you appear to others.
life pretending to be someone they're not." He
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
Do not be deceived by impostors.
The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.
English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
A mask tempts the wearer to play out carnal fantasies and, come daylight, the perfume of a stranger's sex on your flesh and clothes can be blamed or thanked on the metamorphosis stirred by the mystery of the mask.
Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.
I'm so good at faking I don't even know when I'm doing it
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
The ultimate disguise is nothing. Nudity.
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.Fake-- Jill Shalvis
Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.
He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business...
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are merely the actors of that show, having entirely identified ourselves with the masks and fooling not only others, but first of all ourselves.
Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. So you had a choice: you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up on it.
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
Veiling truth in mystery.
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them
the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
There is no use of pretending in front of people
who had repented pretending to be someone else.
The worst crime is faking it
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.
You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being
If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The
If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.
I love doing impersonations of people.
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.
If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
....faking his real life so he can live his fake one.
Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.
For these disguises did not disguise, but reveal.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.
You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.
The danger of attending the extroverts' masquerade ball is that we surround ourselves with people who only like us for our disguise.
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.
Anonymous people living anonymous lives.
Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.
This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.
But now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other - has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one hand holding out a way of escape from humanity, on the other annihilating the self.
FAKE Mask... - That's when we are honest... or probably not...
More likely contradictory!
(FACEBOOK = MASK)
A ruse. That's all it was. Pretend to like this girl. Pretend to have feelings, to pursue some kind of relationship. Earn her friendship and trust, knowing I might have to destroy it, and her, in the end.
I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. This is much more than a simple conflict between two identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the very notion of identity itself.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
I can fake anything.
This is the city of disguises.
Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what?
Disguise had always come easy to him. His childhood had served him well - when your sense of self is taken it grows easier to become someone else, when you sell affection it becomes easier to both understand love and be unmoved by it.
It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
I'm not very good at impersonations.
There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?
I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.
I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.
If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.
To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.
You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.
The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.
That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
A wise man once said the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he was someone else ...
Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?
Is questionable whether any man quite relishes being mistaken for any other man;
Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that.
You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
We could wear disguises," said Frightening.
Aurora nodded quickly. "Like a false beard. I've always wanted to wear a false beard."
Vex frowned. "But you're a woman."
"Exactly. They'd never suspect it was me.
I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.
(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
On the sly, scoping for love.
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.