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"The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own."
"It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later."
"Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable."
"To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety."
"Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?"
"Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever."
"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."
"I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird."
"First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside."
"We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not."
"It always hurts when you lose a secret."
"There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand."
"Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper."
"The only secret people keep is immortality."
"In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away"
"Most affairs do die a natural death. Today, you look at your partner's phone to find out the weather, and you find out about a lover. It has never been as easy to cheat as it is today, and it has never been harder to keep a secret."
"Everyone should cultivate a secret garden."
"If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency."
"Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds."
"The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events."
