Perhaps it’s inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is. That would be terrible,’ he said to himself: ‘it would mean that we were duped by nature.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Pretend to be something you’re not until you are — fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.

I could only be who it seemed I had to be.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

But you have to choose: live or tell.

Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.

If you’re not, pretend you are.’ Take

You have to be someone.

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.