Quotes About Privacy

Tamina feels that the eyes of a single outsider are enough to destroy the worth of her personal diaries, while Goethe thinks that if a single individual fails to set eyes on his lines, that individual calls his–Goethe's–entire existence into question. The difference between Tamina and Goethe is the difference between human being and writer.

Franz, on the other hand, was certain that the division of life into private and public spheres is the source of all lies: a person is one thing in private and something quite different in public. For Franz, living in truth meant breaking down the barriers between the private and the public. He was fond of quoting André Breton on the desirability of living in a glass house into which everyone can look and there are no secrets.

What people keep secret is the most common, the most ordinary, the most prevalent thing, the same thing everybody has: the body and its needs, its maladies, its manias - constipation, for instance, or menstruation. We ashamedly conceal these intimate matters not because they are so personal but because, on the contrary, they are so lamentably impersonal.

Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought.

Životopisci neznají sexuální život svých vlastních manželek, ale myslí si, že vÄ›dí vÅ¡echno o pohlavních tajemstvích Stendhala nebo Faulknera.

Para o meu islandês, a amizade é outra coisa: ser-se um guarda diante da porta onde o amigo esconde a sua vida privada; ser-se aquele que nunca abrirá essa porta; que não permitirá que ninguém a abra.

He reflected that somewhere in this apartment were letters of his, which at any time she could give to anyone at all to read. That a piece of his life remained in Zdena's hands was unbearable

Kanalizacione cevi koje svojim ograncima dopiru do naših stanova brižljivo su skrivene od našeg pogleda, i mi ne znamo ništa o nevidljivoj Veneciji govana iznad koje su podignuta naša kupatila, spava?e sobe, plesne dvorane i parlamenti.

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Despertarse en medio de la noche junto a una persona extraña le desagradaba; levantarse por la mañana junto con alguien le producía rechazo; no tenía ganas de que nadie oyese cómo se limpiaba los dientes en el cuarto de baño y la intimidad del desayuno para dos no le atraía

Quando il giorno dopo lui ripensò a quel sogno, si ricordò di una cosa. Aprì la scrivania e ne estrasse un pacchetto di lettere che gli aveva scritto Sabina. Non ci mise molto a trovare questo brano: Vorrei fare l'amore con te nel mio studio, come su un palcoscenico. E con intorno molte persone, che non avrebbero il permesso di avvicinarsi di un solo passo. Ma non potrebbero toglierci gli occhi di dosso…

We live in an age when private life is being destroyed. The police destroy it in Communist countries, journalists threaten it in democratic countries, and little by little the people themselves lose their taste for private life and their sense of it. Life when one can't hide from the eyes of others — that is hell.

Living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

I'd love to be able to be invisible, because I like to eavesdrop.