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When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
What do we know about the diseases carried by illegal aliens? Not much, thanks to government secrecy, but we know enough to be worried.
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.