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“Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.”

Lying Found Imagine Surface Mask Imagine That Canvas Disregard

Author:William Merritt Chase

“How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?”

Men Feels Whole Lying Company Watches Conscience Fellows Whole Life Hypocrisy Privacy Mask Schemes Artifice Watch Me Subterfuge

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.”

Needs Lying Stranger Mask Lie To Me

Author:David Gemmell

“We wear the mask that grins and lies.”

Lying Mask Guile Bleeding Heart Wearing A Mask Tortured Souls

Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche