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No matter how hard she tried to maintain her calm and collected persona, she knew it was all a ruse. All she wanted to do was curl up in a ball and hide. Hide from the world. Hide from her memories. Enter a shell and never leave. But hers would always be a broken shell, with all her cracks and holes exposed for the world to see. The veneer she had carefully painted to protect and hold herself together was peeling away.

Cristiane Serruya
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.

E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan
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the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Karin Tansek
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Evan Esar
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Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

Donna Lynn Hope
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The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris
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His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
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Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Charlotte M. Mason
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Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs
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