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Letter "S" » Sissela Bok Quotes
«While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.»
«Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.»
«To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.»
Author: Sissela Bok
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closeness, intimacy, mature, nevertheless, omniscience, transcendence
«We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.»
Author: Sissela Bok
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attraction, breathing, breathing space, confers, earliest, early childhood, experts, imposes, in a sense, secrecy
«Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.»
Author: Sissela Bok
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