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Secrets Quotes

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

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"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!"

"I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!"

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

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"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."

"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Secrets, Temptation, Desire, Truth

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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."

"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Secrets, Freedom, Speech, Silence

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"We all have our secrets, some people like to hide it and some just don't like to reveal."

"We all have our secrets, some people like to hide it and some just don't like to reveal."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Secrets, Privacy, Trust, Personality

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"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."

"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."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Secrets, Truth, Wisdom, Life

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"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."

"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."

"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."

Ian McDiarmid, Scottish Actor

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"But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink."

"But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Secrets, Danger, Darkness, Power

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"I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles."

"I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Secrets, Silence, Word, Suppression

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"My secrets must be poetic to be believable."

"My secrets must be poetic to be believable."

Mick Jagger, English Musician

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"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."

"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Secrets, Truth, Consequence, Trust

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"We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets."

"We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets."

Howard Barker, British Playwright

Secrets, Theatre, Want, Writers

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"A funeral is no place for secrets."

"A funeral is no place for secrets."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Secrets, Death, Truth, Mystery

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"Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret."

"Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Secrets, Identity, Mystery, Complexity

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"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."

"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, American Author

Secrets, Love, Sound, Emotion

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"All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all."

"All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Secrets, Players, Life, End

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"I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe."

"I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Secrets, Guilt, Fear, Emotion

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"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."

"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Secrets, Privacy, Humanity, Acceptance

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"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."

"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Secrets, Mind, Life, Truth

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"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

Gerald Priestland, British Journalist

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"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."

"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Secrets, Fear, Isolation, Truth

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"There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times."

"There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Secrets, Truth, Knowledge, Emotion

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"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."

"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Secrets, Truth, Trust, Lesson

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"So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual."

"So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Secrets, Appearance, Trust, Identity

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"I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them."

"I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Secrets, Family, Discovery, Truth

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"Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency."

"Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Secrets, Power, Currency, Knowledge

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"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

Secrets, Truth, Observation, Fear

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