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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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• I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Thinking, Shields

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Carnivals, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.487

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• The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

  Agatha Christie

  Faces, Humans, Human Faces

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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• Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Needs, Growing

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

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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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• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  Jim Morrison

  Giving Up, Freedom, Hippie

  "Take Off The Mask" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2016.

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• Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

  Voltaire

  Equality, Equal, Mortals

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• The trouble with a mask is it never changes

  Charles Bukowski

  Trouble, Never Change

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Real, People, Important

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• It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

  Leonard Cohen

  Real, Names, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.176, Vintage

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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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• Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.

  Lady Gaga

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• Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

  Gore Vidal

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• We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

  Phil McGraw

  Truth, Believe, Feet

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

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• Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

  Erving Goffman

  Self, May, Faces

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• All societies end up wearing masks.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Wearing A Mask, Ends

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• That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Self Esteem, Hate

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ignorance, Dignity, Hiding

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on

  Rumi

  Kings

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Lying, Wearing A Mask, Tortured Souls

  "We Wear the Mask" l. 1, 14 (1895)

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• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  Gao Xingjian

  True Life, Fiction, Literature

  "Living without 'isms'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Funny, Life, Beauty

  Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Real Friends, Dating

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). “The professor at the breakfast-table”

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