Quotes About Concealment

To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

Seluruh halaman ditutup dengan pagar bambu anyaman tinggi, tak dapat dilihat dari jalanan. Apa sebab dipagar rapat tinggi? Agar orang tak tahu apa yang sedang terjadi di dalam.

Creativity is nothing but the way to design the invisible.

This kind of dense brushwood is known as maquis It is made up of various species of tree and shrub, tangled and intertwined at Nature's whim. A man would need an axe to force a way through, and sometimes the maquis can be so dense and overgrown that even the wild sheep cannot penetrate it. If you have killed a man, go to the maquis above Porto-Vecchio, and you will be able to live in safety there, with a good rifle, gunpowder, and bullets.

Ce lucru mai obisnuit decat minciuna, fie ca e vorba sa ascunzi de pilda slabiciunile zilnice ale unei sanatati despre care vrei sa se creada ca e robusta, sa ascunzi un viciu, sau sa te indrepti fara sa jignesti pe nimeni, spre locul pe care il preferi? E instrumentul de conservare cel ami necesar si cel mai intrebuintat.

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it

There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones.

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.

Si le damos la vuelta al nido ni un solo huevo quedará intacto, aunque puede que las grietas no sean visibles.

Brave men hide their deeds as decent folk their alms. They disguise them or make excuses for them.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous.

Mi decisión es una máscara y, tras ella, reina el desorden, el apeiron .

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Ah! How we all love to be deluded! We have a secret dread of being thought ignorant. And we end by being ignorant after all, only we have done it in a long and roundabout way.

The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel.

If I now pretend to be orthodox, my faith will certainly be lost, whether the community remains or not. It is out of respect for religion that I have never concealed anything. I let everyone know that I don't follow any restrictions, and suffer everyone's contempt in silence.

Nowadays, I have a great many visitors. Everyone has come to know that I am here. I'd be happy to escape. Why didn't you hide me away in your doll's house?

If a man had a nasty side to his character, she wanted to get to it immediately and confront it. She didn't want it roaming unseen in the hinterland of the relationship: she wanted to provoke it, to draw it forth, lest it strike her when her back was turned.

while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank

ellipsis, he'd been told, could literally be translated as 'to hide behind silence'. It's fascinating stuff, he said.