“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.”
— Haruki Murakami
Tag: Identity
A Stranger to Oneself
“The truth, forever, for everybody, is that one is a stranger to oneself, and that one must deal with this stranger day in and day out—that one, in fact, is forced to create, as distinct from invent, oneself.”
— James Baldwin
So Complicated
“What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don’t even bother to try to understand it.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
Me/Not Me
“I cannot know who I am, because I don’t know which part of me is not me.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Being
Lisa Marie Blair 