One believes that one chooses freely to be what one is, but one is only ever playing a role, while not being what one is; therefore one is playing a role of what one is outside of oneself. One is never where one is, but always where one is only the actor of that other which one is […] One cannot not desire to be oneself, but one only ever desires a role. To know that is to play in good conscience. To play the best of all amounts to dissimulating oneself.

Pierre Klossowski, Such a Deathly Desire