“A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.”

“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.”

“Your true face... What kind of... face is it? I wonder... The face under the mask... Is that... your true face?”

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

“I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself!”

“Faces may be hard to read because humans are complex social animals that have learned to suppress the display of emotions for various reasons. It is often inappropriate to show negative emotions like hatred and contempt in public, so people go about wearing socially acceptable faces rather like masks.”