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Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
I just wish insignificance had more stature.
Silence too can be indiscreet.
Concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.
I am pretty unextraordinary, ~ Hazel Grace Lancaster.
In certain ways it was easy for others to take advantage of him. He refused to complain about anything. [ ... ] Impenetrable. And because of that, at times almost serene.
We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.
Obstreperous, 'huh," said Tad. "I see you've been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas."
"That is irrefragable," I told him solemnly.
It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be - her voice trembled - penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable. She called us girls.
In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
Obnoxiousness had covered up my insecurities.
It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't
Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.
Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.
So often we measure
by what is false.
We should measure
by what is barely legible
barely in our dailiness.
It is the invisible that doesn't lie
the invisible through which
we see ourselves finally
on a back street in the world.
who
is invisible enough
to see you
Any effort ... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Without style, there can be no identity.
To be truly elegant one should not be noticed
The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.
I prefer to remain anomalous.
Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
I am hidden and I am not.
I'd rather go with something eccentric
but beautifully eccentric.
Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.
Unadaptability is often a virtue.
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.
Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.
But the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Frightfully pale and perpetually odd
...indistinctness is my forte...
The ultimate disguise is nothing. Nudity.
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man ... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.
After the dustman's compliment, all others are insipid.
If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.[15]
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
Let the pronunciamento of your incognito do the incogitable that enlightens the incognizant.
veiled insubordination that he
Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.
Visibility without Value is Vanity
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
I don't want to be mysterious.
No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.
I am just a human being - solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too - But I'm invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible.
Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.
As a private person, professionally I am invisible.
We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.
He did not have the sort of looks suited for stakeouts or tailing people. As much as he might try to lose himself in a crowd, he was as inconspicuous as a centipede in a coup of yogurt.
It was nothing that would hawe seemed odd from the outside, looking in, or drawn attention unless you were really, truly staring at it.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Now, you must be discrete ...
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Vain until the bitter end.
Be as you wish to seem.-- Socrates
ADVENTITIOUS (ADVENTI'TIOUS) adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
Obvious to you is amazing to others.
People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.
Only ugliness is obscene.
I find you adorkable.
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Elegance is refusal.
In my baggy jeans and messy hair, I know I don't fit into this plastic palace. But I don't want to fit in. That's when no one notices you. You leave a longer impression when you're brave enough to stand out.
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows
Bill, don't look at me - I'm 'ideous.
Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd
Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility
I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!
I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is
chilly for a man without clothes.
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.
We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Interesting," said I, "is a term I reserve to describe people or things so dull or ordinary, that I can find no more promising attribution.