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Marc Roberge
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“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
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“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
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“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”
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“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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— last activity Jun 06, 2021 11:21PM
We read and discuss the works of Arthur Schopenhauer. [Note: This group uses the book "Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer (Illustrated) (D ...more
Marc’s 2025 Year in Books
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56 friends
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Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, and Self help
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