Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.