"Secrets travel fast in Paris."
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets."
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"She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."
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"Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find."
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
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"Things keep their secrets."
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"I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!"
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"Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard."
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"Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her."
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"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe."
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"The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun."
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"When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery."
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"Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie."
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"To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast."
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"Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh."
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"The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success."
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"The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention."
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