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“Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.”

Important Simple Secret Prove Importance Important Things Hiding

Book:Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole

Source: Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole

“Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.”

Secret Importance

Book:Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.”

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

“The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.”

Writing Important Secret Importance Dare

Author:Julien Green

“It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.”

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Author:Christian Schwochow

“It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?”

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Author:Antoine-Henri Jomini