"I read your secrets to escape from my own."
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"The best way to hear somebody else's secret is actually to share one of your true secrets."
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"Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes."
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"However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary."
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". . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it."
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"What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning."
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"Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it."
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"And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust."
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"Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)"
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"The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue."
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"I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?"
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"Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian."
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"Surprise is the secret of joy."
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"The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other."
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"Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed."
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"I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record of declassified documents, and they are mostly concerned with keeping what the government does secret from its own population. It's mostly defense of the power system from its own population. Very little is authentic security."
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"[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions."
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"I definitely keep myself secret."
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"And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies."
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"GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high."
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