Quotes with secret

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  • Cesare Pavese Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Aphra Behn Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Geldof Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Camille Paglia Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • James Allen Mind is the Master - power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills - He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Bella Thorne My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Steven Wright My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Bill Dedman NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Victor Hugo No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bertrand Russell No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aphra Behn Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arnold Bennett Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Zelda Fitzgerald Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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  • James C. Humes One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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