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Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

—William Hazlitt, 1823

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

—George Eliot, 1860

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

—P.D. James, 1992

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

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

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004
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