“ What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
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“ All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world. ”
- H. Rider Haggard- Copy
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“ O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide Thine awful and serenest countenance From those who know thee not! ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
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“ I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
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“ I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. ”
- Jerry Falwell- Copy
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“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud. ”
- Gwyn Thomas- Copy
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“ You must leave your many millions, And the gay and festive crowd; Though you roll in royal billions, There's no pocket in a shroud. ”
- John Alexander Joyce- Copy
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“ Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining. ”
- Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler- Copy
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“ The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
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“ Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ After I did the solo acoustic tour last year, I felt like I was in a position to start working with people again. I think the shroud of Husker Du was finally laid to rest, and people who wanted to were able to hear those songs for what was probably the last time… ”
- Bob Mould- Copy
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“ There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used…Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was… ”
- Gil Bailie- Copy
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