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  For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

  Joan Miro

  Secret, Intense, Cigarette

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• I think everybody has a secret life.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Secret

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Character, Thinking, Finding Love

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• The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

  Katie Melua

  Reality, Thinking, Musical Genius

  "Katie Melua: I want to start afresh". The Telegraph, September 15, 2007.

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• You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

  Tony Curtis

  Life, Girl, Secret

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• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

  Emily Eden

  Keeping Secrets, Fool, Instinct

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

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• Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

  Sophocles

  Kindness

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Ice, Play

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.150, Routledge

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• The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

  Stuart McRobert

  Secret, Today, Life Is

  Stuart McRobert (1998). “Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on how to Build Muscle & Might”, C S Publishing

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• This is the great Secret of life.

  Michael Beckwith

  Law Of Attraction, Secret, Attraction

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• Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Men

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• Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Latin, Writing

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• Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Running, Secret, Want

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• I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

  Og Mandino

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.58, Bantam

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• The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Helping Others, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  Adam Gopnik

  Secret, Quality, Littles

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• The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  People, Perfect, Leader

  "Evan Rachel Wood, Uncut". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. October 5, 2011.

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• A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Years, Secret

  "Shailene Woodley channels her 'Inner 'Glee' for 'Secret life'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2012.

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• My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.

  R. B. Kitaj

  Secret, Stuff, Painting

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• I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

  Anne Lamott

  Secret, Trying, Giants

  Anne Lamott (1980). “Hard Laughter: 2”, Viking Adult

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• I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, Secret, I Smile

  Song: In My Secret Life, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspiration, Secret, Want

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• The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Breathe, Wanted

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