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“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“Honest people don't hide their deeds.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” - 1897

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“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” - 1920

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“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” - 1912

“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” - 2008

“Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“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” - 1974

“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“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” - 1934

“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” - 1864

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