“The world is full of actors pretending to be human”

“We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.”

“The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...”

“We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are”

“We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are.”

“Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be a man is to recite humanity.”