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Quotes About Secrecy

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Who knows who you really are? A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading....
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
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~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
For some people a façade is necessary even with friends
~ Yiyun Li
Are you afriad to tell them the truth? Are you afraid they'll abandon you? You're afraid because you don't trust your followers. If all you want is to lead your fight and take this secret to your grave, then keep it to yourself. But if you want to TRUST them, and earn their trust in return, if you want to fight alongside them, then you must tell them. If they leave you, it means you weren't worth it from the start. (Unten to Sarasa)
~ Yumi Tamura
My doors enter from the sidestreet, my windows painted basement black, my mouth kisses the blues harp, my heart hides like notes locked in a cedar chest.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered.
~ Deborah Levy
I thought so. Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered. As a child, I used to cover my face with my hands so that no one would know I was there. And then I discovered that covering my face made me more visible because everyone was curious to see what it was I wanted to hide in the first place.
~ Deborah Levy
Muskarac i zena su uvek Potpuno Iskreni kad god NESTO kazu jedno drugom. Oni nikad ne bi pomislili da kazu jedno drugom SVE.
~ Deborah McKinlay
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret places is pleasant. —JACOB CATS, Moral Emblems, 1632
~ Deborah Moggach
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -Francois de La Rochfoucauld
~ Deborah Smith
Dunia tidak lagi sama. Hidup ini menjadi asing. Aku sedih untuk sesuatu yang tak kutahu. Aku galau untuk sesuatu yang tak ada. Dan jari ini ingin menunjuk sesuatu yang bisa menjadi sebab, tapi tak kutemukan apa-apa. Pada saat yang sama, seluruh sel tubuhku berkata lain. Mereka tahu sesuatu yang tak dapat digapai pikiran. Apa rasanya, jika tubuhmu sendiri menyimpan rahasia darimu?
~ Dee Lestari
No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.
~ Deepak Chopra
Touching the scar, quickly, so that no one ever realised that she was doing it, restored a sense of reality, a sense of who she was, in a way that looking at her own reflection could not.
~ Deirdre Madden
It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.
~ Deirdre Madden
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I wondered that day if I was the only one in the room who knew that there was something terribly wrong with our mother.
~ Delores Phillips
Sir Adam tells me your husband had looked for you prior to the meal that day and couldn't find you," Faucon said. "Where were you?" "Hiding," she said with a sigh. "It's what I do here.
~ Denise Domning
La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.
~ Denise Dresser
Why don't you just tell Meridith who you are, man?" "Because she thinks the uncle is irresponsible and self-absorbed." Jake missed. Wyatt snorted. "She tell you that?" Jake scowled. Wyatt put up another shot, this one from the left side—Jake's weak spot. The ball swished through the net. "Besides, after I've been there all these weeks incognito . . . I don't think it's going to go over well." Meridith
~ Denise Hunter