"It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily."
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"The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it."
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"And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows."
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"Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us."
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"Those griefs burn most which gall in secret."
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"The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list."
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"My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people."
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"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever."
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"Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth."
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"Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share."
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"Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure."
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"It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom."
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"the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable."
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"This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds."
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"Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God."
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"Life is given to each human being For a very special purpose. This secret each human being Must discover for himself."
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"Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success."
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"Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength."
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"The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -"
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"A secret spoken finds wings."
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