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Hiding Feelings

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You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Sylvia Plath

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Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.

Theognis

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.

Dante Alighieri

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The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Charlotte Brontë

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

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