Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.