"An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry."
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"Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult."
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"I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake."
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"Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound."
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"Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends."
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"To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment."
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"Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules."
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"Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer."
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"I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us."
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"The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?"
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"I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie."
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"She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced."
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"My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting."
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"Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke."
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"The secret of fortune is joy in our hands."
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"I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil."
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"Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring."
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"Humility is the secret of the wise."
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"You can take better care of your secret than another can."
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"What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed."
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