“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.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“ Some .. see things that are ... and ask why ? I Dream things that never were ... and ask Why Not ! ”
G.B. Shaw
“The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.”
William Penn
“One such episode of cooling during the period 1940-1975, when tidal forcing was stronger, may have temporarily masked the appearance of the greenhouse effect in global temperatures, and contributed to the controversy of whether greenhouse warming was occurring at all.”
Timothy Whorf
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
Cesare Pavese
