Georg Simmel - Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of r

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

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Simmel, Georg. The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Translated by Kurt H. Wolff, Free Press, 1950, p. 333.

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