"Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret."
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"Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better."
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"Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father."
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"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
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"In the wave lies the secret of creation."
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"My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day."
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"Jesus, he meets you where you are. Jesus, he heals your secret scars."
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"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."
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"It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told."
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"Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire."
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"The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!"
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"I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery."
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"There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart."
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"You've had your share of secrets and I'm tired of being the last to know"
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"The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person."
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"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds."
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"There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding"
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"Concentration is the secret of srength."
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"The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness."
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"Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter."
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