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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We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCA regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960