"I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message."
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"Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents."
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"The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting."
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"The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing."
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"You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery"
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"Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life."
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
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"The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile."
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"I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence."
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"But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man."
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"Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows."
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"My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's."
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"Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
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"When you tell a secret - always know it will be told."
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"There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us."
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"Secrets are the currency of intimacy"
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"Trade your secrets and become who you are."
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"When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'"
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"With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory."
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"The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things."
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