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"Easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret."
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"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up."
"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
"So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual."
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