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«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 takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.»
«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.»
«Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: avarice, masked
«No mask like open truth to cover lies,As to go naked is the best disguise.»
«People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.»
«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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