Quotes Tagged "masquerade"

All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
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Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.
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Does it really take a full 9–5 to get our tasks done? Or … do we just “push paper,” masquerading as being productive while we are merely just running down the clock?
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George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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