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1 " I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, " that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. "
2 " By now it is a ready-made cliché—the rock star dying young, whether by excess, by accident, or by suicide. For some, it’s part of the act, macabre performance art, a final song. This last mode, suicide, can be elusive. In fact, it almost always is. It might masquerade as excess—reckless, immoderate drug use. There is subintentioned suicide too. The person may simultaneously wish to live and die. No special effort is made to stay alive, but none is made to keep living, either outcome perfectly acceptable. "
3 " On the road to success there is absolutely no room for criticism of self or others. Insecurity and fear masquerade as jealousy and judgment. Finding faults in others wastes time as we attempt to remove the bricks from other people’s foundations – time that could be better spent building our own. And worrying about what other people think about us also wastes the time that could be better spent expanding upon what we have built. "
― Alaric Hutchinson , Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
4 " Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade. "
― Criss Jami , Healology
5 " Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen" bestxdatingsites.blogspot.com "
6 " I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the creation of the special sort of criminal that he typified...all I do know is that while might is right, while chaos and anarchy masquerade as order and enlightenment, those conditions will obtain. "
― Eric Ambler , The Mask of Dimitrios (Charles Latimer, #1)
7 " The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are. "
― Innocent Mwatsikesimbe , The Reason (Mere Reflections #1)
8 " We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science. "
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
9 " If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)? "
― Howard Jacobson , Shylock Is My Name
10 " Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream? "
― Ken Poirot
11 " Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, " Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?" (Reported exchange with Winston Churchill) "
12 " The worst have scraped out the mantle of the best and wear it around as something real. It takes no genius to see that. But I moved to San Francisco because the masquerade of kindly gestures is, at least, kind. And it remains kind. And all the people who would sit back and comment on the garishness of the costumes, the hollowness of the dialogue, the lack of divine conviction, well, all those people are either dead or fifteen years old. "
13 " Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligations. Shoulds set up a false dichotomy between either meeting an ideal or being a failure, between perfection or settling. The tyranny of the should even pits us against our own best interests. "
― Meg Jay
14 " Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity. "
― Anthon St. Maarten
15 " The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and polite ridicule; forces which are not always available, and for whose successful operation much time will be required. But the outstanding fact remains, that the world has come to regard liquor in a new and clearer light. Our next generation of poets will contain but few Anacreons, for the thinking element of mankind has robbed the flowing bowl of its fancied virtues and fictitious beauties. The grape, so long permitted to masquerade as the inspirer of wit and art, is now revealed as the mother of ruin and death. The wolf at last stands divested of its sheep’s clothing. "
― H.P. Lovecraft
16 " We are never truly peaceful about donning a masquerade to appear to be something we are not. We want to come to the PARTY dressed as ourselves and when we do, we feel natural and free." from Are You Ready?The Night Blooming Jasmine in Your Heart "
17 " The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. "
18 " Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? "
19 " A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. "
20 " The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. "
