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A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,—The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.Bu...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely m...

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Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

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Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusi...

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You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

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He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the des...

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She had blue skin,And so did he.He kept it hidAnd so did she.They searched for blueTheir whole life ...

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Shel SilversteinEvery Thing on It

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was ...

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I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept ...

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In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes o...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

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Barbara EhrenreichBait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we step...

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Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles