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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

George Simmel | Secrecy, Temptation

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Oscar Wilde on temptation



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