"Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on."
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"Mortals are equal; their mask differs."
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"In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask."
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"Some of us wear the mask prouder than others."
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"Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks."
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"Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces."
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"Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers."
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"Men take more pains to mask than mend."
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"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves."
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"...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much."
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"Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks."
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"whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable."
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"This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself."
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"Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance."
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"What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite."
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"Curiosity is one of the many masks of love."
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"She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love ."
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"Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask."
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"We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power."
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"God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?"
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