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“Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.”

Long Life Is Secret Remains Finest

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.”

Trying Kind Dream Moving Memories Forget Secret Talking Essentials Models Remains Intimate Confession

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.”

People Long Earth Powerful Secret Empty Remains Filled Notion Masonic Filled Up

Author:Umberto Eco

“But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.”

Jesus Secret Sweet Method Remains Righteousness Reasonableness

Author:Matthew Arnold

“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”

Years Lost Secret History Doubt Modern Century Perfection Remains Following Chemistry Mistress Inventor Cradle Modern Science Poisoning

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake issue because hardly anything technological remains a secret for very long.”

Kind Long Country States Whole United Secret United States Issues Weapons Remains Sells Fake Other Countries Technological Secrecy

Author:Howard Zinn

“In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.”

People World Bigs School Jobs Girl Levels Secret Cities Millions Security Lows Remains Access Around The World Deceiving Pakistan Big Cities Jobs And Education

Author:Malalai Joya

“We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.”

Want Writing Book Names Goal Black White Deals Secret Truth Is Police Remains Symbols Legacy Historian Legends Black And White Solidarity Icons Secret Police

Author:Slawomir Cenckiewicz

“Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.”

May Long Important Secret Liberty Highest England Remains Sacred Privilege Trials Guardian Beneficial Jury Sap Trial By Jury

Author:William Blackstone

“Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.”

Firsts Secret Steps Shame Remains Addiction Recovery Openness Overwhelming First Steps Addiction Recovery

Author:David Sheff