There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
Edward Fitzgerald
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Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.
Michael Dirda
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
DeWitt Clinton
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There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.
Peter Hook
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As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Juliana Hatfield
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls
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We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
Conor McPherson
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
Georgina Chapman
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.
Simon Mainwaring
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
Clare Balding
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Salman Rushdie
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