Quotes About Concealment

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

They can hardly separate mere learning from witchcraft, and are fond of words and verses that keep half their secret to themselves.

Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge

Who knows who you really are? A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading....

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People don't vanish from one's life; they come back in disguise.

All people lie, in their writing as much as in their lives. It frustrates me that I hold on to an unrealistic belief: there is some irrefutable truth in each mind, and the truth is told without concealment or distortion in a letter or in a journal entry.

I had only wanted to stay invisible, but there as elsewhere invisibility is a luxury.

Her expression almost never changed. Made it hard to tell what she was thinking. But also made her seem separate from the rest of the world. It was like she lived so deep in the ocean even light couldn't reach her. Like a fish that couldn't see the dark lonely depths, because it was always dreaming about sunlight.

The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal

Yo era el único que no tenía tuberculosis. Fingía padecer una afección cardíaca. Vivíamos en unos años en los que era preciso estar en posesión de una de estas dos cosas: medallas o enfermedades.

The silence Is like moonlight In one thing: That it hides nothing.

Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he has taken off his trousers, and that his nose protrudes altogether indecently and must at all cost be covered.

Dancing and singing, movements on the stage, and the different types of miming are all acts performed by the body. Moments of "no action" occur in between…. The actions before and after an interval of "no action" must be linked by entering the state of mindlessness in which the actor conceals even from himself his own intent.

It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained, but not seen. ??????,??????.

If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

Words are the visible clothes that our invisible thoughts wear."—IKE REIGHARD

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

How many times had people made that very same mistake with me? So often I'd almost come to rely on it as part of my camouflage.

People are fakers--that's all we do. Can you think of anything you do that's not done for the precise reason of pretending to be something you're afraid you're not?

Think of denial as an acronym for Don't Even Notice I Am Lying

It was hard to say which one was real – the face she showed the world during the day or the one she hid at night. Maybe neither.