“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”
Source: The Fountainhead
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“If you confess your sins, you must confess them to God; we are but his witnesses.”
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Source: Epigrams, p. 346
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”
Variant: She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
The Paris Review interview
Context: Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem — don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.
"Guayaquil", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)