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Concealed Quotes by Bernhard Schlink
- Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn…
- why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
- She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made…
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- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. — Theodor Adorno
- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere
- I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in… — Sandra Bullock
- Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he… — Friedrich Engels
- No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson
- Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators,… — Ambrose Bierce
- Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton