Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mask Quotes

Here are some more quotes about masks that I found.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.” -- W. H. Auden

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” -- Oscar Wilde

"No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise." --William Congreve

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

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