"The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment"
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"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own."
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"Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said."
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"What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret."
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"That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind."
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"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
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"If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?"
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"The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility."
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"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."
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"The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret."
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"His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part."
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"We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought"
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets"
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"In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture."
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"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application."
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"Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche."
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"We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies."
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"Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense."
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"Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life."
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"The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries."
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