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“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, “1984” - 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, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.” Agatha Christie, “Secret Adversary” - 1922

“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“Who shall be true to us, when we are so unsecret to ourselves?” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 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, “Dracula” - 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, “The Lucky One” - 2008

“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 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, “Madame Bovary” - 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, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 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, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“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” - 1934

“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” - 16 October 1847

“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” - 1925

“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” - 1922

“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” - 1864

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