Mask Quotes - Page 16

Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.

Pablo Antonio Cuadra

School, Ideas, Criticism

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Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

Soren Kierkegaard

Thinking, Midnight, Littles

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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Steve Jobs

Cancer, Sadness, Feelings

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Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

Oriana Fallaci

Blue, University Degrees, Games

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The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

Edgar Quinet

War, History, Lorraine

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It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.

Asger Jorn

Art, Eye, Style

Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hair, Jekyll, Faces

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.64, Broadview Press

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Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

William Merritt Chase

Lying, Canvas, Imagine

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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

J. B. Priestley

School, Men, Style

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As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Russell Hornsby

Trying, Actors

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Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

Thomas Jane

Lying, Careers, Different

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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

Jean Sasson

Grief, Sadness, Faces

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True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all. With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.

Adyashanti

Wall, Fall, Love You

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To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

Midori Snyder

Forever, Disaster, Deny

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I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.

Bret Easton Ellis

Vacation, Cities, Bloodlust

Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

Girl, Opposites, Interesting

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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

Marguerite Young

Reality, Ideas, People

Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days.

Courtney Love

Sex, Crazy, Epic

"Courtney Love’s 5 Best Beauty Quotes From Her ‘Into The Gloss’ Interview" By Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

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When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

Philippe Halsman

Photography, Real, Fall

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The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.

Gordon Korman

Crazy, Men, Silence

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When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

Philippe Halsman

Real, Fall, Ideas

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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Keys, Doors, Trying

"All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by George Gurdjieff, 1973.

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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

W. Somerset Maugham

Men, Community, Culture

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A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

Aesop

Beautiful, House, Brain

Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

Philippe Halsman

Real, Character, Self

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