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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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secrecy
privacy
public-image
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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"The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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two-sides-to-the-story
vice-versa
secrecy
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Gregory Maguire |
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"And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me.
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secrecy
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Cecily von Ziegesar |
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All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important information. In recent years, however, I have noticed that my gratification is becoming diluted by a certain weary indignation. They tell me because they regard me as safe. All of them, they make their disclosures to me in the same spirit that they might tell a castrato or a priest - with a sense that I am so outside the loop, so remote from the doings of the great world, as to be defused of any possible threat. The number of secrets I receive is in inverse proportion to the number of secrets anyone expects me to have of my own. And this is the real source of my dismay. Being told secrets is not - never has been - a sign that I belong or that I matter. It is quite the opposite: confirmation of my irrelevance.
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loneliness
trust
secrecy
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Zoë Heller |
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"From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear the pressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our first and only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way we protect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared."
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sacrifice
phury
secrecy
duty
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J.R. Ward |
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These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.
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intertwined
invasion
secrecy
secretive
shadowy
monopoly
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Michel Faber |
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The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.
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refuge
secrecy
young-love
secrets
intimacy
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Susan Vreeland |
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...discretion will generally keep a fella safe.
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taciturnity
secrecy
safety
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Tim Winton |