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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
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"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."
"Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble."
"What happens in the dark should not be brought to light."
"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."
"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
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"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."
"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
"The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli."
"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."
"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."
"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."
"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events."
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