“The thinker can never himself say what is most of all his own. It must remain unsaid, because what is sayable receives its determination from what is not sayable.”— Martin Heidegger, amazon.com
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com
“It's perhaps here that we find the secret of secrecy. A secret is not a matter of knowing and a secret is for no one. A secret doesn't belong, it can never be said to be at home or in its place.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com
“How do you know that you’re a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don’t, there’s no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“To be able to keep silent, Dasein must have something to say—that is, it must have at its disposal an authentic and rich disclosedness of itself.”— Martin Heidegger, amazon.com