Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva. (№ 466170)

Why do people go into their shells and cowardly watch their every word, every gesture? They are afraid of everything - they will talk frankly and they are ashamed that they “let it slip.” It turns out that only at a masquerade you can tell each other the truth. And life is not a masquerade! Or a masquerade without the outright audacity of real masqueraders.