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Quotes About Concealed

Death is hidden away from us in our century – it's become something secret that happens in hospitals or morgues. We only see it on a screen – filtered, lit, factitious.
~ William Boyd
what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.
~ William Boyd
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
~ William Faulkner
Delicate equilibrium of periodical filth between two moons balanced. Moons he said full and yellow as harvest moons her hips thighs. Outside outside of them always but. Yellow. Feet soles with walking like. Then know that some man that all those mysterious and imperious concealed. With all that inside of them shapes an outward suavity waiting for a touch to. Liquid putrefaction like drowned things floating like pale rubber flabbily filled getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed up.
~ William Faulkner
resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be stark naked) a baroque effigy created out of colored cake dough by someone with a faintly nightmarish affinity for the perverse
~ William Faulkner
And every passing face is masked, mouths and nostrils concealed behind filters. Some, honoring the Day of the Dead, resemble the silver-beaded jaws of grinning sugar-skulls. Whatever form they take, their manufacturers all make the same dubious, obliquely comforting claims about viroids.
~ William Gibson
What the eyes do not see can never pain the heart.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
My dad leaves bruises on the inside.
~ Chris Crutcher
subcompact" models, ultra-portable and discrete weapons such as the G26 and G39.
~ Chris McNab
Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
~ Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —OSCAR WILDE WE
~ Heinz R. Pagels
When I saw you for the first time, I thought you had a secret life.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There remained only rare periods of amorousness that came over the spouses, but they did not last long. These were islands that they would land on temporarily, but then they would put out again to the sea of concealed enmity that expressed itself in estrangement from each other.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It never failed to astonish him, then or ever, how much of the world around him was mysterious and hidden from view.
~ Lev Grossman
The daddy-at-home theory posits that concealed ovulation evolved to promote monogamy, to force the man to stay home, and thus to bolster his certainty about his paternity of his wife's children. The many-fathers theory instead posits that concealed ovulation evolved to give the women access to many sex partners and thus to leave many men uncertain as to whether they sired her children.
~ Jared Diamond
Pero las heridas de verdad son las otras. Las que nadie ve. Las que la gente lleva en secreto. Ésas son las que lo explican todo».
~ Javier Cercas
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
~ Jean Cocteau
Le hasard, c'est la forme que Dieu prend pour passer incognito.
~ Jean Cocteau
What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.
~ Jean Rhys
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Invisible worlds, or worlds that are supposed to be invisible interest me. I like to see the effort it takes for some people to make things go smoothly for other people. Don't misunderstand me; mostly I'm part of the invisible world myself.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights.
~ Jeanette Winterson