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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the ...

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We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

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Tracy ChevalierGirl with a Pearl Earring

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if thing...

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Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; i...

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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The i...

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He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have ke...

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Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of ...

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Vladimir NabokovThe Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and reli...

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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

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Wilfred OwenThe Poems Of Wilfred Owen

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m...

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Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackis...

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A. M. HomesMay We Be Forgiven

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts o...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below ...

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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...

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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us...

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It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she fe...

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Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feel...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of l...

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions t...

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

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Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, ...

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There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to s...

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And I suppose you know who Magnus’ father is?” Luke said.“I paid a lot of money once to find it out,...

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Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.“ I would pluck out my own eyes with a f...

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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rath...

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Charles BaudelaireSelected Writings on Art and Literature

there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night so...

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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll ...

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Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

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Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of ...

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Conrad AikenGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing r...

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Conrad AikenGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no se...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

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Daphne du MaurierEchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them...

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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furth...

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Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and de...

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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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Edith HamiltonMythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...

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Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every...

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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...

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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when h...

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I would prefer not to.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear kisses are the messengers of love and tender...

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I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will ...

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The secret of success is sincerity.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak...

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There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for...

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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...

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The secret of happiness is something to do

The secret of happiness is something to do.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently a...

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Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I ...

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I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people ag...

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Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates a...

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Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to he...

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I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just-...

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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a ...

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I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all...

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I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...

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