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"I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life ."
"It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods."
"How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?"
"It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it."
"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
"You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers."
"One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed."
"Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well."
"When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it."
"Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed."
"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies."
"The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them."
"Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction."
"Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know."
"In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge"
"My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him."
"My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely."
"As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural."
"Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors."
"With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle."
