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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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