Mask Quotes - Page 11

• The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  History, Tragedy, Woven

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• Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

  Guy Debord

  Choices, Different, Form

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.45, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of
  its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Events, Deeds

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.36.

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• A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Hypocrite, Men, Epic Poems

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)”, p.235, e-artnow

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• Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Form, Function

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• To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Home, Heart, Mean

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 14, 2014

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• For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessed, Soul, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Heart

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• Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Mirrors, Exorcism

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

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• There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

  Edith Wharton

  Tragedy, Comic

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Cholera

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Fashion, Riches, Annoyance

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.98

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• No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

  William Congreve

  Honesty, Lying, Deceit

  The Double Dealer act 5, sc. 6 (1694)

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• Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

  Edward Kennedy

  Powerful, Commitment, Compassion

  "Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'". www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Kissing, World

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.397, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Love Is, Trying, Who Cares

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Shopping, Urban Legends

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• In order to find peace, we must expose the masks we use to hide behind.

  Debbie Ford

  Order, Use, Finding Peace

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• One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Choices, Protection, Anonymity

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• The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Night, Muggers, Made

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• It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

  Philip Roth

  Real, Lying, People

  Philip Roth (1985). “Reading myself and others”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I have a black look I do not
  like. It is a mask I try on.
  I migrate toward it and its frog
  sits on my lips and defecates.

  Anne Sexton

  Anger, Black, Trying

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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• I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Faces

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