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Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a...

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But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were begin...

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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwar...

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And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betraya...

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Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his...

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… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; fo...

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Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in ...

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Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destructi...

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Michael ChabonMaps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the thing...

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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everythin...

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A funeral is no place for secrets.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I ...

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He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own ...

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There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by utt...

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I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secre...

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Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I sh...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

In a later chapter, less argued over and less well-known, Teccam explains that there are two types o...

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It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...

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It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is c...

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Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal l...

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For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance autho...

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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card tric...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a visio...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

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Stephen KingThe Eyes of the Dragon

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you...

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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice comin...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate ...

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But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at ...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Be...

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Terry BrooksStar Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?"Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret,...

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When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret wi...

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But the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a le...

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be heal...

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I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space b...

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I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees ...

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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...

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I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...

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Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the gr...

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Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. I...

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Willa CatherAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.

I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our

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William HazlittEssays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me."Whatever was told to Zinat i...

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Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of ...

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A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms...

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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-b...

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Alice MunroThe Moons of Jupiter

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women ther...

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Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with ...

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Andrei CodrescuZombification: Stories from National Public Radio

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass...

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Andrei CodrescuZombification: Stories from National Public Radio

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet th...

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It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

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

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? Wha...

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Anthony TrollopeFramley Parsonage

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of ...

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Anton ChekhovThe Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am I...

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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard's Almanack

Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

In the end, it's only a story of having had her words and secrets, her confidences, turned against h...

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We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, ...

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Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave on...

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He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, a...

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We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

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Cees Nooteboom's Nachts komen de vossen

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things the...

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Celeste NgEverything I Never Told You

They meet again at dinner--again, next day-- again, for many days in succession. Lady Dedlock is alw...

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Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think...

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It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit...

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And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...

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I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

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I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the botto...

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Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...

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