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Quotes About Concealment

Duygular?n? saklamaya çal??acak kadar e?itimden geçmemi?.
~ Unknown
These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.
~ Octavia E. Butler
These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about." "Don't warn Joanne or any of your other friends
~ Octavia E. Butler
Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decksWhich practically conceal its sex.I think it clever of the turtleIn such a fix to be so fertile.
~ Ogden Nash
S?owa s? jak jaszczurki, potrafi? uciec z ka?dego zamkni?cia.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye,To give repentance to her lover,And wring his bosom, is—to die.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
~ Unknown
Je craignais de perdre ce que j'avais enfoui dans ma mémoire, tel un bibliothécaire qui refouterait un incendie.
~ Unknown
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
~ Omar Khayyam
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.
~ Osamu Dazai
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable I was in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed.
~ Osamu Dazai
My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people, but who was finally seen through by some omniscient, omnipotent person who ruined him and made him suffer a shame worse than death.
~ Osamu Dazai
Masks in one layer after another—as many as ten or twenty—had fastened themselves upon me, and I could no longer tell how sad any one of them really was.
~ Osamu Dazai
I have only to shut my eyes after looking at it to forget the face. I can remember the wall of the room, the little heater, but all impression of the face of the principal figure in the room is blotted out; I am unable to recall a single thing about it.
~ Osamu Dazai
Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. Pero son como una vaca pastando tranquila que, de repente, levanta la cola y descarga un latigazo sobre el tábano. Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza. Recuerdo que se me llegaba a erizar el cabello de terror al pensar en que este carácter innato es una condición esencial para que el ser humano sobreviva. Al pensarlo, perdía cualquier esperanza sobre la humanidad.
~ Osamu Dazai
On the other hand, I was equally afraid that they might not recognize my true self when they saw it, but imagine that it was just some new twist to my clowning-occasion for additional snickers.
~ Osamu Dazai
I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement performed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within.
~ Osamu Dazai
It is true, I suppose, that nobody finds it exactly pleasant to be criticised or be shouted at, but I see in the face of the human being raging at me a wild animal in its true colour, one more horrible than any lion, crocodile, or lion. People normally seem to be hiding his true nature, but an occasion will arise when anger makes them reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror.
~ Osamu Dazai
Mi idea de alguien respetado consistía en una persona que había logrado engañar casi a la perfección a los demás pero que, al ser visto por un ser omnisciente e omnipotente, era humillado en una vergüenza peor que la muerte.
~ Osamu Dazai
Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. (...) Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza.
~ Osamu Dazai
When a person has secrets locked inside, he can't help but feel that there are ears embedded in the walls.
~ Osamu Dazai