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«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.»
«Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.»
Author: Robert Motherwell
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
European, mask, rejected, subject matter, The European, The Mask
«Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
becoming, case, deceived, degree, every last, extend, extend to, higher degree, in one case, In Real Life, last but not least, let off, mask, masked, midnight, mocked, perfectly, prevents, real life, Relationships, reveal, slip, slip away, slip off, so long, terrified, terrifies, terrify, throw, throw off, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, transparent, unhappy, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
advancement, advancements, affluence, be well, conceal, corruption, display, efforts, exceed, fortunes, Gods Themselves, imaginable, Inhabitants, mask, national, number the, ostentation, outward, ruin, small fortune, small number, The Gods Themselves, The Mask, The National, twinkling, vain, vanish, vice
«Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| Keywords:
discretion, disguised, distrust, implies, intervention, interventions, mask, mutual, preserving, prevail, reserve, solicitude, The Mask
«Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to»
«Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Reality,
Self awareness,
Truth
| Keywords:
all told, at the least, give, given any, give out, him, His, least, man, manned, mans, mask, masked, masking, of her own, on her own, own, person, talks, Talk to Her, Tell, tell on, their talk, The Telling, The Truth, this talk, truth, truth telling, when, will
«In wise love each defines the secret self of the other, and refusing to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life; for love also creates the Mask.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
beloved, copy, defines, mask, mirror image, Refusing, The Beloved, The Lover, The Mask
