"Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask."
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"Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask."
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"I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth."
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"It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life."
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"The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?"
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"There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask."
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"Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto."
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"It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do."
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"When I just want to be free, I'll wear the Banderas outfit and the mask and touch myself. On the chest. Only on the chest. I just want to feel the silky silks."
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"No one can wear a mask for very long."
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"As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not."
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"his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love."
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"Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness."
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