1.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Andre Malraux
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger
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A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
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But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.
Daniel Ellsberg
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
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Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
Laura Esquivel
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Walter Winchell
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All women are natural born espionage agents.
Eddie Cantor
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
George Orwell
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
John Dryden
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
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A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
Lauren Oliver
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery
24.
I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets
Drake
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
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If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
28.
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
Emily Eden
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I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
Miley Cyrus
31.
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
Marla Maples
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Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
Lisa See
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad
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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
40.
But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look
Deb Caletti
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There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
Carl Sagan
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There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
Joyce Maynard
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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo
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Alchemists turned into chemists
when they stopped keeping secrets.
Eric S. Raymond
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo
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I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
Steven Yeun
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The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.
Thomas Powers