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“Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, 1984
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing oneself. ” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Such is the influence of custom, that, where it is strongest, it not only covers our natural ignorance, but even conceals itself, and seems not to take place, merely because it is found in the highest degree.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
“You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“I ain't such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.” George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
“when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“What makes the desert beautiful . . . is that somewhere it hides a well...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“There are some bad people in the world, and the reason they’re not in jail is because they’ve learned how to hide it.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

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