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“Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.”

Style Personality Hot Mask Adopted

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

“Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.”

Way Faces Personality Appearance Characteristics Mask Conception Hostile Scratches American Society American Way Of Life

Author:Julius Evola

“Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.”

World Character Spiritual Religious My Own Doubt Emotional Personality Mask My Thoughts Estrangement

Author:Norman Lock

“Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.”

Soul Spirit Personality Pure Authenticity Mask Uniqueness Veils

Author:John Friend

“Once the makeup is on, it's a collaborative process but it's pretty neat to have the makeup sort of speak to you when you look in the mirror and see how the face moves. For me, the personality comes through that makeup and that exploration of how it all looks and moves. You try to make it more unique than just a human with a mask on.”

Trying Humans Looks Faces Moving Speak Process Personality Unique Mirrors Mask Makeup Exploration Neat

Author:Dan Payne

“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.”

People Facts Life Is Literature Space Personality Happenings Relation Response Psychological Mask Obscure Discounts

Author:Karan Mahajan

“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”

Use Answers Behinds Personality Mask

Book:Goat Foot God: A Novel

Source: Goat Foot God: A Novel