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

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

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

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

—P.D. James, 1992

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

—Umberto Eco, 1980

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60
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