"These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret."
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"To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets."
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"All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart."
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"All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless."
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"You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret."
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"You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire."
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"The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not."
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"Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets."
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"I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course."
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"You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open."
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"Secrets of the heart are seldom news."
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"What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered."
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"Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement."
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"When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art."
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"No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's."
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"I always had this secret suspicion that I was special."
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"If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy."
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"A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast."
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"Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it."
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"I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality"
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