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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."
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"Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble."
"It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine."
"When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'"
"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
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"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
"He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever."
"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."
"It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be."
"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."
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