Secret Quotes
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Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
Sebastian Bach
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When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.
Alessandro Manzoni
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The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Nikola Tesla
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There is a randomness to this ballet of death. This is the order of things. This is the secret to understanding the universe. Everything happens in an instant. Normalcy. And then apocalypse.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.
Hannah Arendt
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.
Sarah Caldwell
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
Seth Godin
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I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
Kevin Spacey
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I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front.
Tom Harkin
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The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
Esther Perel
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.
Sarah Dessen
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The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.
Sherman Alexie
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Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The secret of life is... everything is out of control.
Ajahn Brahm
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South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
Catherine Helen Spence
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Secrets are made to be found out with time.
Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
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The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.
Rhonda Byrne
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
William Butler Yeats
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Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.
Beatrix Campbell
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Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.
Ernst Haas
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This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people died yesterday.
Odilo Globocnik