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Quotes About Veiled

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?
~ Amanda Hocking, Switched
There is a specific dimension of the uncanny that emerges with modernity… in premodern societies the dimension of the uncanny was largely covered (and veiled) by the area of the sacred and untouchable… With the triumph of the Enlightenment, this privileged and excluded (the exclusion that founded society) was no more. That is to say that the uncanny became unplaceable; it became uncanny in the strict sense.
~ Mladen Dolar
Some things have to be seen in the shadows
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Some things can only be seen in the shadows
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Suddenly she saw a flickering light ahead, near the grove. Curious, she drew closer. A veiled figure with black hair and wearing a glowing white gown confronted her. The next instant Helen was struck on the back of her head and fell unconscious
~ Carolyn Keene
The world seemed spellbound in icy purity, its earthly blemishes veiled; it lay fixed in a deathlike, enchanted trance.
~ Thomas Mann
A person's sadness didn't always take a form that others could see.
~ Keigo Higashino
her head and her face was in shadow. She'd pushed
~ C.J. Box
So dark you almost miss it
~ Gayle Forman
Natürlich mai exist? locuri pe care nu le ?tie nimeni.
~ Gellu Naum
Better keep such things decently buried.
~ Iris Murdoch
I would like 'Dark Souls' to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie - the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents.
~ Rebecca Traister
But there is an alternative; it is less obvious and remains unseen.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
That which hides in plain sight is the most difficult thing to find.
~ Neal Shusterman
He's become like that briefcase in the ground—full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.
~ Neal Shusterman
Morrison suspected he had no idea how many people worked behind the scenes of his "simple" life, because they always scurried like mice when they saw him coming. To the Toll, a fortress manned by dozens upon dozens of people appeared to be mostly deserted.
~ Neal Shusterman
A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
~ Charles Mackay
Birth, life, and death? each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
~ Toni Morrison
Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable. Or so our writers seem to say.
~ Toni Morrison
Sei por experiência que se deve evitar descobrir quem deseja manter-se escondido.
~ Kjell Askildsen
We can't have all these people seeing that thing on your wrist, can we?
~ Kristen Day
There is an amusing sense of superiority in seeing and remaining unseen.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
However, just because it's an institution of higher learning offering the course doesn't mean it's automatically free from bias and veiled sales pitches.
~ Taylor Larimore