Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
In Mexico, luchadores, the wrestlers, are the only Mexican superheroes. And to keep the mystery behind the mask is really important.
I request everyone to mask up, sanitize and be careful not just for yourself, but for those around you, too.
So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
I have a black look I do not
like. It is a mask I try on.
I migrate toward it and its frog
sits on my lips and defecates.
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
When the 'Batman' TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.
I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.
When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.
Some days I'll put on a face mask for 30 minutes, and then I'll wash it off in the shower.
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.
Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.
If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky.
You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask.
I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.
You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much
Sometimes people pretend to be someone else and act in a different way, everyone carries an invisible mask.
[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.
During Fashion Week, my skin becomes sensitive, so I always put on a sheet mask before I go to bed.
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
When the two have crossed paths in public, McCain hasn't even tried to mask his ill will toward Obama.
The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.
I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
If health and medical experts told me I should wear a mask while I was briefing, I would do it.
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'
I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and deal with reality.
Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
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