Mask Quotes

• Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

  Lisa Mangum

  Self, Wearing A Mask, Way

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• A mask tells us more than a face.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faces

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.848, GENERAL PRESS

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• I wear the mask. It does not wear me.

  Man in the Iron Mask

  Doe

  "Fictional character: Philippe". "The Man in the Iron Mask", 1998.

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• There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Good Man, Lone Ranger

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• Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

  Will Smith

  Hopes And Fears, Connected, Knows

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• Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fake People, Fall, Sometimes

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• There are three masks:
  the one we think we are,
  the one we really are,
  and the one we have in common

  Jacques Lecoq

  Thinking, Three, Common

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• When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.

  Qiu Xiaolong

  Qiu Xiaolong (2003). “Death of a Red Heroine”, p.66, Soho Press

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

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• I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Wonder, Kindred

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.554, NYU Press

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• Every profound spirit needs a mask.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Needs, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

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• The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Self, Faces, Life Is

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• Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Restoration, Life Is, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

  Alan Moore

  Honesty, Long, Wearing A Mask

  "Fictional character: Gordon Deitrich". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Personality is a mask you believe in.

  Robert J. White

  Believe, Personality

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• Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

  Rumi

  Tears, Faces, Your Face

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• Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

  Daniel Handler

  Helping Others, Helping

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Humor is the mask of wisdom.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Funny, Wisdom, Humor

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• behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

  Paulo Coelho

  Cheating, Heart, Ice

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• He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

  George Orwell

  Faces, Fit, Grows

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

  Robert Greene

  People, Society, Complicated

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

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• Writing is both mask and unveiling.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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