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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Margaret AtwoodRead
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
Oscar WildeRead
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Joyce BrothersRead
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
J. K. RowlingRead
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
Oscar WildeRead
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
Oprah WinfreyRead
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
Cormac MccarthyRead
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Michel FoucaultRead
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.
Hermann HesseRead
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusRead
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
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte BronteRead
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
James JoyceRead
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.
Michael OndaatjeRead
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
Bill WattersonRead
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.
Cormac MccarthyRead
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.
Frederick BuechnerRead
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Resistance is the secret of joy!
Alice WalkerRead

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