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masking

«The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.»
«Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.»
«Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.»
«No mask like open truth to cover lies,As to go naked is the best disguise.»
«The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.»
«No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.»
«Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.»
«All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.»
«Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.»
«Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding»

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