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A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off. — Simone De Beauvoir

Speed masks accuracy — Derek Tate

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character. — K. Guillory

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. — Mark Twain

We become the masks we wear. — Brent Weeks

Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid. — Sylvia Plath

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton

We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting. — Neil Gaiman

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man. — William Shakespeare

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks. — Oscar Wilde

All the houses sat blank, like masks - meaningless until someone was inside. — Heidi James

Her parents roared around in the masks of monsters. Not — Mary Karr

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show. — Nikki Sex

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. — Hugh Laurie

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. — John Stuart Blackie

Horror is the removal of masks. — Robert Bloch

So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind? — Clive Barker

A digital wall of masks stared back at him. His finger rolled the mouse in a slow downward scroll.
Okay, you bastard. Where are you? — Lisa Kessler

Those masks we wear
not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are. — Basith

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. — Kahlil Gibran

Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. It — Alison Goodman

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination. — Lisa Anderson

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. — Arthur Schnitzler

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks. — Gore Vidal

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. — Guy Debord

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes. — Moira Young

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. — Salman Rushdie

Maybe it was the masks or maybe it was Rio. There was something in the air, the promise of pleasure that made it impossible to stop. "You're — R.S. Grey

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are. — Christopher Barzak

Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks.
There's nothing new about them at all. They're people. — Philip Roth

The masks of her life would become the mythical body of her art. — Edward Butscher

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. — Patrick Rothfuss

we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. When — R.J. Palacio

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

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true. — Rajneesh

You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams. — Rita Rudner

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No matter the masks we wear, we always end up together. — Jodi Meadows

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. — Elinor Wylie

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone — Mario Puzo

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. — Nicholas Sparks

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. — Jose Rizal

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. — Steven Millhauser

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life. — Judd Nelson

The things we see are only masks for the things we can't see. — Anthony Doerr

They says truth is hidden behind their masks, but I believe Truth comes out when they are masked! — Twinkle Varshney

... the last year had seen women and children carrying [gas] masks about as they carried a handbag or a skipping rope. — Kristy Cambron

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change. — Shannon L. Alder

I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Lots of folks would argue that Bruce hides behind his perfectly coiffed hair and ever-easy smile far more than Batman does underneath his cowl. — Paul Asay

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. — Andre Berthiaume

My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks — Frantz Fanon

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face. — Rajneesh

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. — Mason Cooley

I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself. — Eva Herzigova

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2 — Lois Charles

Michael Varus drew his sword. 'My father is Janus, the god of two faces. I am used to seeing through masks and deceptions. — Rick Riordan

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks. — Jane Fonda

The edge of the sea masks a clock that marks the waves. — Gwen Calvo

Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life. — Nikki Rowe

In the depths of the ocean;
Dipped in love without expectations,
We have stripped off our masks. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
— Vernon Howard

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone. — Brenda Shoshanna

Masks come off when the gospel is put on. — J.R. Briggs

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling. — Andy Samberg

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. — Lissa Rankin

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink. — Rachel L. Schade

The king tut masks flew off the penguins, revealing them to be -gasp- penguins. — Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. — James H. Boren

All societies end up wearing masks. — Jean Baudrillard

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman. — Suzanne Collins

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them. — Mason Cooley

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil. — Jon Snow

What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all? — Brent Weeks

We all wear masks, but it's the one we choose to wear that makes a difference. — Kim Yannayon

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. — Wes Craven

Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires. — Chloe Thurlow

No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes. — Randy Alcorn

Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked — G.K. Chesterton

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. — Eric Schlosser

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. — W. H. Auden

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks — David Gemmell

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks. — Alexander Herzen

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. — Paulo Coelho

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die. — Frankie Boyle

It was as if there were but one woman in the world, laughing at him from behind a dozen masks. — Kim Newman

Kings have no need of masks. A mask is a release from oneself, a respite.

("Thirty-Three Abominations") — Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

the locale. Their faces were pulled tight, more like masks than faces, really. They moved slowly, — Larry Weiner

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power. — Frank Herbert

Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair. — Jonathan Lethem

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. — Washington Irving