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I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

A place to keep all your secrets

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.