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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter-- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
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secrets
sharing-secrets
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Sylvia Plath |
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I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
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love
secrets
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Nicholas Sparks |
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Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
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secrets
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Cassandra Clare |
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"Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way for the Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through ...... Percy was deeply disapproving of this behavior. "It is not a laughing matter," he said coldly. "Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry." "Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling. Ginny didn't find it amusing either. "Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was planning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a large clove of garlic when they met."
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potter
harry
secrets
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J.K. Rowling |
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"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
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lying
lies
lovers
hate
secret
love
truth
deciet
interview-with-the-vampire
lestat
lie
secrets
vampire
vampires
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Anne Rice |
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I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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secrets
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Veronica Roth |
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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
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secrets
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Kim Edwards |
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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secrets
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Oscar Wilde |
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And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?
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harry-potter
comedy
dumbledore
secrets
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J.K. Rowling |
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I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?
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metaphor
simile
the-blind-assassin
secrets
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Margaret Atwood |
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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
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magic
garden
secrets
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
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friends
secret
shopaholic
secrets
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Sophie Kinsella |
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
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|
fate
self-determination
fear
life
order
ignorance
superstition
secrets
|
Cormac McCarthy |
06da198
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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|
shame
secrets
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Alice Munro |
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Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell.
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secrets
sharing-secrets
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Stephenie Meyer |
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All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
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secrets
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Cecelia Ahern |
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What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
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honesty
secrets
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Jodi Picoult |
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The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
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|
trust
truth
secrets
|
Lisa Unger |
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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gossip
secrets
|
Alexandre Dumas |
d33bb73
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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
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|
honesty
love
internal-self
intent
secrets
|
Haruki Murakami |
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Secrets...are the very root of cool.
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secrets
|
William Gibson |
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You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
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others
privacy
secrets
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Don DeLillo |
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Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.
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secrets
junk
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Holly Black |
da2546d
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When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.
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woman
abondon
intuition
secrets
soul
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
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trust
love
secrets
|
Oscar Wilde |
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There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret. But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind. I can put it even this way: the more decent a man is, the larger will the number of such things be.
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secrets
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
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lying
secrets
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Holly Black |
915f427
|
A secret spoken finds wings.
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discretion
secrets
sharing-secrets
|
Robert Jordan |
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Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves; if she doesn't court disapproval, reproach, and general wrath, whether of friends, family, or party apparatchiks; if the writer submits his work to an internal censor long before anyone else can get their hands on it, the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.
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writing
truth
self-revelation
revelation
secrets
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Michael Chabon |
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That sounds a lot like, ' I have more secrets that I'm going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest.
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the-ashryver-cousins
aelin-ashryver-galathynius
secrets
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Sarah J. Maas |
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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relationships
women
secrets
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Thomas Hardy |
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It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.
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storytelling
secrets
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Diane Setterfield |
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Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.
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lies
truth
conspiracies
hidden
secrets
sharing-secrets
|
Holly Black |
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that...
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louisa-may-alcott
secrets
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Louisa May Alcott |
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The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?
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secrets
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Kim Edwards |
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...there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.
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secrets
|
L.M. Montgomery |
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Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?
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secrets
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David Mitchell |
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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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life
intersect
secrets
|
Markus Zusak |
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What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.
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seeing
secrets
|
Jean Rhys |
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes -- die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
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mystery
secrets
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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"I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?" Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?" "Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots." "Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know."
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secrets
vetinari
|
Terry Pratchett |
88360fb
|
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
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|
silence
secrets
|
Pat Conroy |
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...
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|
truth
shame
secrets
|
Sue Monk Kidd |
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"Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to." --
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lovers-love-story
secrets
|
Margaret George |
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There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. A radical exhibitionist is a person who has forfeited his identity. But identity in a vacuum is also meaningless. Sooner or later, the inside of you needs a witness. Otherwise you're just a cow, a cat, a stone, a thing in the world, trapped in your thingness. To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. . . . Your identity exists at the intersection of these lines of trust.
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|
trust
identity
secrets
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Jonathan Franzen |
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I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink. I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them.
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secrets
|
Cory Doctorow |
7f8ab7a
|
We always hate people who surprise our secrets...
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|
l-m-montgomery
secrets
|
L.M. Montgomery |
1dee002
|
Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
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secret
trust
secrets
|
Robin Hobb |
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|
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret...
|
|
louisa-may-alcott
secrets
|
Louisa May Alcott |
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|
Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.
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secrets
|
Cornelia Funke |
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|
The real thing about evil... you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.
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|
humanity
secrets
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Gregory Maguire |
881b1c8
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As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true--all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.
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|
lies
magic
truth
secrets
|
Jean Rhys |
57db855
|
I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.
|
|
trust
friendship
trustworthiness
judging-others
judging-people
judge
secrets
sharing-secrets
loyalty
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Mohsin Hamid |
b957959
|
But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.
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|
killing
man
responsibility
murder
depression
secret
survival
secrets
guilt
|
Blake Nelson |
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Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
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|
importance
secrets
|
Margaret Atwood |
d10c79e
|
But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.
|
|
death
truth
signs
secrets
|
William T. Vollmann |
8f7b613
|
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.
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|
participation
government
secrets
democracy
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Garry wills |
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Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.
|
|
friendship
inspirational
connection-with-people
knowing-a-person
sharing
secrets
sharing-secrets
soul
loyalty
|
Mohsin Hamid |
c545b15
|
A funeral is no place for secrets.
|
|
loss
funeral
grieving
secrets
|
Mitch Albom |
bf213b3
|
All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.
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|
secrets
|
Christina Dodd |
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|
"We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The Predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so... I have been beating around the bush all this time, insinuating to you that something is holding us prisoner. Indeed we are held prisoner! "This was an energetic fact for the sorcerers of ancient Mexico ... They took us over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the predators rear us in human coops, humaneros. Therefore, their food is always available to them." "No, no, no, no," [Carlos replies] "This is absurd don Juan. What you're saying is something monstrous. It simply can't be true, for sorcerers or for average men, or for anyone." "Why not?" don Juan asked calmly. "Why not? Because it infuriates you? ... You haven't heard all the claims yet. I want to appeal to your analytical mind. Think for a moment, and tell me how you would explain the contradictions between the intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behaviour. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of belief, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal." "'But how can they do this, don Juan? [Carlos] asked, somehow angered further by what [don Juan] was saying. "'Do they whisper all that in our ears while we are asleep?" "'No, they don't do it that way. That's idiotic!" don Juan said, smiling. "They are infinitely more efficient and organized than that. In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous manoeuvre stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous manoeuvre from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now." "I know that even though you have never suffered hunger... you have food anxiety, which is none other than the anxiety of the predator who fears that any moment now its manoeuvre is going to be uncovered and food is going to be denied. Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them. And they ensure, in this manner, a degree of security to act as a buffer against their fear." "The sorcerers of ancient Mexico were quite ill at ease with the idea of when [the predator] made its appearance on Earth. They reasoned that man must have been a complete being at one point, with stupendous insights, feats of awareness that are mythological legends nowadays. And then, everything seems to disappear, and we have now a sedated man. What I'm saying is that what we have against us is not a simple predator. It is very smart, and organized. It follows a methodical system to render us useless. Man, the magical being that he is destined to be, is no longer magical. He's an average piece of meat." "There are no more dreams for man but the dreams of an animal who is being raised to become a piece of meat: trite, conventional, imbecilic."
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slavery
magic
human
religion
dreams
ancient-history
cognitive-dissonance
anunnaki
cosmos
occult
virus
shamanism
aliens
cause-and-effect
manipulation
sorcery
sorcerer
matrix
chaos
problems
beliefs
predator
important
service
secrets
food
mind-control
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Carlos Castaneda |
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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
|
Milan Kundera |
c5222ac
|
You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.
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|
mothers
secrets
|
Sue Monk Kidd |
eebb186
|
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
|
|
secrets
|
Richard Peck |
dc3acae
|
I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her heavily. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. She had told a secret and now had the sadness of wondering how much deeper she might dig in order to keep the first secret fed.
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|
sorrow
secrets
|
Colum McCann |
3920c07
|
There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
|
|
silence
prayer
secrets
|
Terry Tempest Williams |
2e6f423
|
You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight--and smile at your own past sorrows.
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|
past
secrets
|
John Fowles |
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|
They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
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|
earth
worship
cult
great-old-ones
r-lyeh
sea
hidden
secrets
|
H.P. Lovecraft |
5d7ef5b
|
Find one person to trust--there need only be one. With them, share every shame, every secret and listen to theirs... with love. Bare hearts and souls until there is understanding. Of a certainty, such honest exposure is the first step toward happiness. -- Andre Chevalier
|
|
trust
honesty
happiness
shame
secrets
|
Nikki Sex |
b8d44ad
|
Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.
|
|
secrets
|
Kate Atkinson |
9f5f926
|
There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
|
|
silence
secrets
|
Margaret Atwood |
15e2cf1
|
Food, it appeared, could be important. It could be an event. It had secrets.
|
|
food-writing
secrets
food
|
Anthony Bourdain |
787145f
|
"Good sex requires further exposure than simply removing one's clothes. And as for a good relationship? Ah! For this one must be prepared to reveal even more." -- Andre Chevalier"
|
|
sex
relationships
secrets
|
Nikki Sex |
4a839ed
|
Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.
|
|
secrets
power
|
Robin Hobb |
ebfb10d
|
"Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me." Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one."
|
|
keeping-secrets
secrets
|
Zadie Smith |
1dd193d
|
She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.
|
|
learning
secrets
|
J. Courtney Sullivan |
88f815e
|
He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.
|
|
secrets
sense-of-self
|
Hilary Mantel |
457d768
|
Because: if our secret defines us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.
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|
self
secrets
|
Donna Tartt |
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La semaine derniere, nous avons pris une decision. Nous allions sortir pour deblayer les briques. Des femmes de notre quartier y travaillaient quotidiennement. Les Trummerfrauen. Elles nettoyaient les briques de toute trace de ciment. Elles empilaient dans des brouettes. Les emportaient dans un depot. On utiliserait les briques pour recronstruire Berlin. Une tache utile, mais epuisante.
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family
british-literature
turkey
exile
world-war-2
british
istanbul
secrets
london
suspense
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Barbara Taylor Bradford |
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The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.
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government
danger
secrets
power
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Don DeLillo |
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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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I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterbox
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secrets
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John le Carré |
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Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page - but then the world is the same way, isn't it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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the-world
secrets
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Gregory Maguire |
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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
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life
intriguing
readers
secrets
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Elizabeth Kostova |
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Margarita megdavo sakyti, kad yra dvi rusys moteru: tos, kurios matomos kiaurai, ir tos, kurios nesioja paslapti. Ir kad tai yra svarbiausia, ka vyrai issyk pajunta, ir svarbiausia, kas juos patraukia arba ne. Vienus traukia vieno tipo moterys, kitus kito. Margarita - man nereikia to sakyti - buvo kiaurai matoma, bet kartais ji pavydedavo toms, kurios nesiojo paslapti ar apsimesdavo jos apgaubtos.
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women
secrets
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Julian Barnes |
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"- "Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" -- he tapped the side of his head -- "he's still here. He never left."
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reality
forgotten-memories
ghosts-of-the-past
ghosts
secrets
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Pete Hautman |
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In the entire history of our marriage, it was the only secret I kept from her, and eventually it became impossible to fix. With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
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secrets
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Sara Gruen |
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Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.
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stoicism
mysterious
secrets
childhood
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Mary Doria Russell |
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A person's mind is his last sanctuary. - Brom
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sanctuary
secrets
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Christopher Paolini |
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When secrets are unspoken and unwritten they are lodged safely in the mind, but writing them down seems to let them loose and give them the power to spread like pollen on the air and enter into other minds.
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writing
secrets
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P.D. James |
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There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. A radical exhibitionist is a person who has forfeited his identity. But identity in a vacuum is also meaningless. Sooner or later, the inside of you needs a witness. Otherwise you're just a cow, a cat, a stone, a thing in the world, trapped in your thingness. To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. Colleen knows what you secretly think of Willow. You know what Colleen secretly thinks of Flor. Your identity exists at the intersection of these lines of trust.
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identity
secrets
intimacy
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Jonathan Franzen |
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No pasa nada por fuera. Eso es verdad. [...] Pero ni tu ni nadie puede vigilar por el interior de los pechos.
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passion
love
hiding-feelings
secret-love
secrets
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