Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998
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It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885