Quotes About Concealment

I found 'The Face Of Another' by Kobo Abe disappointing despite the excellent, gothic premise: a man who's terrible facial scarring leads him to create a perfect mask.

When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own good, you quickly learn to hide your true feelings, even from yourself.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

But Ben had a bulge under his shirt and she was sure it was a gun.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.

Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.

What's that, Barry?' 'Nothing, chief!

We can say with some accuracy that most people put on a show of their own knowledgeability and try to conceal their ignorance of millions of facts.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive. From twenty until death he tries to conceal it.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.

Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it can hide something we Europeans can't or don't want to understand.

His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as the result of an exercise of concealment. There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune, the magic flower of winter!

Los floreros disimulan La puerta del Infierno

Como somos tortuosos. Como parecemos ou nos mostramos simples diante dos outros e no fundo como somos tortuosos. Que pouquinha coisa nós somos e de que maneira tão espetacular nos contorcemos diante de nós mesmos e diante dos outros (...). E tudo isso pra quê? Para ocultar o quê? Para fazer crer o quê?

A blind life in which everything had the transparency of water.

23 de diciembre Hoy no pasó nada. Y si pasó es mejor callarlo, pues no lo entendí.