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Mask Quotes - Page 4

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.240, Modern Library

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got.

"Yes, Cate Blanchett's Skin Really Does Glow (and Other Important Beauty Bits We Gleaned From the Blue Jasmine Star)". Interview with Lindsey Unterberger, www.glamour.com. November 25, 2013.

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History”, p.42