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“if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, 1984
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“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, The Lucky One
“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“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, Dracula
“Who shall be true to us, when we are so unsecret to ourselves?” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.” Voltaire, Candide
“Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.” Agatha Christie, Secret Adversary
“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, A Woman of No Importance
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink;” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“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, Madame Bovary
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“there are books . . . which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Secrets are worth more than silver or sapphires” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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