Hides Quotes
347 Hides quotes by 282 unique authors
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I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest…
— Oscar Wilde
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To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,…
— C.S. Lewis
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..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas?…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language…
— George Sand
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Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must…
— Gustave Flaubert
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It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.
— John Christopher
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Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
— Julio Cortazar
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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not…
— Richard Dawkins
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their…
— Rene Magritte
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Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith…
— Avril Lavigne
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
— E. M. Forster
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
— Oscar Wilde
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It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight,…
— Patrick Ness
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Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that…
— Kathi Appelt
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Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to…
— Steven Pinker
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To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
— Jonathan Lethem
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