Source: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
“To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears.”
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Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“let me
have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning
please don't hide them just because of tears”
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(1963) American singer-songwriter
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“You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(1965) Novelist
Source: Acheron
François de La Rochefoucauld
(1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Il ne faut pas s’offenser que les autres nous cachent la vérité puisque nous nous la cachons si souvent à nous-mêmes.
Maxim 11 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims
We Wear The Mask, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Context: We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
Section 100
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
Book One in 'Nikanor Ivanovich's Dream', B/O
Variant: The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never!
Source: The Master and Margarita (1967)
Context: The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184