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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Christopher Barzak
    “Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”
    ― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing
    tags: masks
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    Catherine Doyle
    “Do you think you wear a mask?’

    ‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’

    ‘It’s a sad thought.’

    ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”
    ― Catherine Doyle, Vendetta
    tags: life, masks, philosophy, truth
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    “Nobody truly knows me, but I suppose that's the way it is for everyone. Or at least I hope so. We seem to have the tendency to put on a front in the best interests of ourselves, but eventually these fronts weld themselves to us until we no longer recognize our own soul in the mirror.”
    ― Morgan Menzie
    tags: masks
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    Paul Asay
    “Like Batman, all of us hide behind our masks and use them to help define ourselves for others. We all have secret identities of a sort, hidden behind our smiling social-networking profiles or our happy church faces. They're not lies, really. They're just not the whole truth, because we know that most of the people we encounter day-to-day couldn't handle the truth (or perhaps we couldn't handle giving it to them).”
    ― Paul Asay, God on the Streets of Gotham: What the Big Screen Batman Can Teach Us about God and Ourselves
    tags: batman, god, masks
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    “And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
    But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: be-yourself, cardew, freya, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, hidden, hide, identity, lonely, lose, lost, mask, masked, masks, myself, mysterious, mystery, obsession, obsessive, perfect, perfection, play, postmodern, postmodernism, pretend, pretending, real, reality, realize, role, roles, romance, romantic, secret, secretive, strive, suspense, try, trying, who-i-am, who-you-are, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance, young-adult-suspense, yourself
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