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Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
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intrude
private
souls
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Mary Balogh |
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
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public
private
reputation
society
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David Mitchell |
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There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
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silence
writing
beauty
disclusure
privicy
private
voice
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth.
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truth
public
private
privacy
secrets
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Milan Kundera |
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Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.
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love
other-people
loves
the-sea-the-sea
unknowable
private
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Iris Murdoch |