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• I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life, Stupid, Wish

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Worry, Alive

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• It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Egypt, Said, Has Beens

  Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

  Simone Elkeles

  Attitude, Real, Eye

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Lying, Character

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• If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

  Manuel Puig

  Novel, Aesthetic, Unconscious

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• It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

  Trisha Goddard

  Wedding, Umpires, Hours

  "Secrets and lives". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

  Norman Granz

  Reality, Rights, Development

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• I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

  Tom Waits

  Lying, Ideas, America

  " Tom Waits gives the devil his due" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

  Peter Zumthor

  Wall, Believe, Simple

  "Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

  David O. Selznick

  Hollywood, Rooms, Symbolic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Grandmother, Swans, Evil

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

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• The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

  Lisa Unger

  Leaving, Naked, Begin Again

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.24, Crown

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• Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

  Aravind Adiga

  Genuine Concern, Loathing, Masters

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2008.

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• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

  Edward H. Levi

  Frustration, Intellectual, Events

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mean, Men, Good Man

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• Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Happiness, Eye, Romantic Love

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• I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Vocation, Felt

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• For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I can truthfully say that I possess all of Vieux Paris.

  Eugene Atget

  Beautiful, Doors, Years

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• Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.

  John Welwood

  Two, People, Soul

  John Welwood (1996). “Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship”, Harpercollins

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• A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Religious, Hypocrite

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• Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Weakness

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• Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

  Jon Foreman

  Children, Pain, Tears

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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