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“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.”
John Steinbeck
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“East of Eden”
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1952
“if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.”
George Orwell
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“1984”
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1949
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.”
Oscar Wilde
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“A Woman of No Importance”
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1893
“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”
William Shakespeare
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“Macbeth”
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1623
“Who shall be true to us, when we are so unsecret to ourselves?”
William Shakespeare
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“Troilus and Cressida”
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1609
“Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”
Bram Stoker
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“Dracula”
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1897
“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she’d never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“The Lucky One”
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2008
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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“Fight Club”
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1996
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.”
Margaret Atwood
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“The Blind Assassin”
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2000
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“The Little Prince”
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1943
“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Madame Bovary”
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1856
“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”
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1997
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
Charles Dickens
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“A Tale of Two Cities”
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1859
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William Shakespeare
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Oscar Wilde
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J. K. Rowling
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George Orwell
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Charles Dickens
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Bram Stoker
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Nicholas Sparks
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Chuck Palahniuk
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Voltaire
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John Steinbeck
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Margaret Atwood
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Gustave Flaubert
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Macbeth
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Troilus and Cressida
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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1984
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Dracula
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The Lucky One
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Fight Club
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Candide
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East of Eden
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The Blind Assassin
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The Little Prince
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Madame Bovary
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A Woman of No Importance
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A Tale of Two Cities
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