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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“A mask tells us more than a face.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“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, The Moon and Sixpence

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