Quotes about secrets
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Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows. I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a lavatory seat.
Allah, perchance, the secret word might spell;
If Allah be, He keeps His secret well;
What He hath hidden, who shall hope to find?
Shall God His secret to a maggot tell?
p. 45
Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
Mirrors reflecting into other mirrors reflecting into other mirrors yet…Intelligence was that kind of game, a chess match with both players moving at the same time and both of them blindfolded more often than not.
p. 97
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
Secrets are like snowflakes, nowadays—rare and hard to keep for very long.
p. 393
Technology keeps changing and the cams keep getting smaller. Only fools count on their secrets staying safe forever.
p. 335
Yes, evil thrives on secrecy.
p. 191
Real power begins where secrecy begins.
Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.
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