Quotes About Concealment

He didn't know if he could explain it to a non-magician. Everything would simply be what it was and nothing else. All there would be was what you could see. What you felt and thought, all the longing and desire in your heart and mind, would count for nothing. With magic you could make those feelings real. They could change the world. Without it they would be stuck inside you forever, figments of your own imagination.

We're all ghosts here, you just don't look like one yet.

We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on its absolute validity. We want to see what opposition it will arouse, and this can be achieved only by stating our assumption not as a tentative suggestion, which no one will consider, but as an irrefutable, all-important truth. The greater the value of the assumption has for us, the more carefully do we conceal any suggestion of its improbability.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

Firstly, I prefer to think of him as Peter Parker. Spiderman is kind of the tool he uses to go undercover as he's trying to help out the police.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

We are all actors,' said Connie. 'Our true feelings and desires hidden behind masks carved from the trammels of accepted social norms. Wouldn't you say so?

Webster seemed to me either a man without a past, or a man eager not to have one.

I'm fine, I said, which is what people who aren't fine always say.

The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.

It's a very long penis Johnny has, and a smooth one, smooth as ivory. She compliments him on it and he says thank you. But they have to hide it. It is too big to hide under the sheets, and it keeps getting bigger as she talks about it and touches it. It's so big that it disappears over the edge of the bed and out the window.

Lucy frowned. "What's the Three-S rule?" "Shoot, shovel and shut up.

There was a saying about dust bunnies: by the time you see the teeth, it's too late.

Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice. I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Gizlemek (dissimuler), sahip olunan ÅŸeye sahip deÄŸilmiÅŸ gibi yapmak; simüle etmek ise sahip olunmayan ÅŸeye sahipmiÅŸ gibi yapmakt?r.