my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw

~ Charles Bukowski

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Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

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The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

~ Lisa Unger

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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

~ Kurt Cobain

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First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

~ Criss Jami

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The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man with substance and wisdom of gold. What if God was dressed as a carpenter with dirty nails and beaten boots? Would you recognize your Maker? Would you give him your time? Your vote? A cup of tea or water? Only those with truth in them will recognize truth. And you must learn to recognize all that is untrue to get the truth.

~ Suzy Kassem

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Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

~ Criss Jami

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Oh, I loathe weddings. I loathe sitting down and participating in inane conversations with proud parents and smug couples who all look like they might secretly hate each other.

~ Saleem Haddad

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Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.

~ Kenneth Everett

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it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.

~ Evan Meekins

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A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

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Façade. One, simple word. But, very complex portents. It’s like living a life of half-dead. You are neither fully inside a grave, nor completely out of it, beyond the oppressive calmness of the slabs, tombstones and plaques. There is one solace though, you soon discover that you are not alone in the vast graveyard of the half-dead. This is what Kamini soon realized when she plunged herself back into the world that the destiny had conspired her to inherit.

~ Vinod Pande

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The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one’s advantage. They are, however, operated by us – by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?

~ A.j. Darkholme

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To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

~ Criss Jami

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Presenting a humble façade gains trust; flattery appeals to ego; combine the two to gain an ego-based trust within someone, and you will find in your hands a judgement clouding tool second only to love.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.

~ Dominic Riccitello

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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

~ Arthur Miller

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A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

~ Criss Jami

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​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor playing a part for perhaps the seven hundredth time. It was an automatic performance, completely divorced from what Mrs. Baker might really have been thinking or feeling.

~ Agatha Christie

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The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity.

~ Andrena Sawyer

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We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple “no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

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Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.

~ Stephen Magnus

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All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

~ Jessiqua Wittman

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All too often people pretend to be professional. Professionalism is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

~ Richie Norton

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Your silences remain, they are your biggest mask.

~ Sreesha Divakaran

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Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself.

~ Agatha Christie

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Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

~ Steven Magee

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I don't know what is behind the curtain, only that I need to find out.

~ Richard Paul Evans

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A leader is generally not more virtuous than most ordinary people. The opposite is usually true. Because people are reluctant to be led by those perceived as evil, a leader expertly creates a façade, behind which he hides all that may appear dirty. This is a difficult art where the leader has to wear two masks, one in public and the other in private—and no one should see the true face of a leader.

~ Awdhesh Singh

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I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

~ Deb Caletti

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Now I understand why you grow so many flowers.She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, To cover the stink of sulphur.

~ John Fowles

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The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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