“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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Variant: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
“All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
Source: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 139)
“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”
Source: James Cameron's Titanic
Evangelicæ Historiæ: Quadripartita Monas Sive Harmonia Quatuor Evangelistarum ("Harmonization of the Gospels") (1592), dedicatory letter. Quoted in Jean Van Raemdonck, Gerard Mercator: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1869), p. 25, footnote 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=18NNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA25
“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”
As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153