Mask Quotes

• 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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• Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fear, Grace, Growth

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Good Man, Lone Ranger

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

  Lisa Mangum

  Self, Wearing A Mask, Way

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

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

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Self, Faces, Life Is

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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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• 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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  If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

  Banksy

  Art, Lying, People

  Martin Bull, Banksy (2011). “Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the U.K.”, p.144, PM Press

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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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• Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

  Rumi

  Tears, Faces, Your Face

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• Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

  Faith Ringgold

  Thinking, Vision, Way

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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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• Personality is a mask you believe in.

  Robert J. White

  Believe, Personality

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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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• 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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