MASKS -

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. Jim Morrison

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.” 
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served."  Jane Jacobs
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"It's a terrible thing to be alone-yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask." Katherine Mansfield

"We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of."  Phil McGraw 

"Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm." Anna Maria Chavez
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“Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

“Masked, I advance.” 
― René Descartes

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” 
― André Berthiaume

“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