Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Let's take our masks off and wash our faces up!”
Original: (pt) Vamos tirar a máscara e lavar a cara!
Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
quote against hypocrisy and tendency
“He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.”
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Paraphrased variant: Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God … but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1998) by James Beasley Simpson.
Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
Context: Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. He can certainly flee from God (he does so); but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God (he does and is so); but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in His hate. He can certainly give himself to isolation (he does so — he thinks, wills and behaves godlessly, and is godless); but even in his isolation he must demonstrate that which he wishes to controvert — the impossibility of playing the "individual" over against God. He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.
“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
Source: Black Beauty
“Let me fall out of the window/
With confetti in my hair”
Source: Lyrics of Tom Waits: The Early Years, 1971-1983
“Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.”
Lyrics, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)
