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In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

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Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

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Resistance is the secret of joy!

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We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

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Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

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Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.

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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

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You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers.

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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

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