[Basil Hallward]:
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
page 7 - Sharing something is giving up a part of the original essence of what has been shared. What’s the actual value of sharing? Is it really as important as we, in the XXI century, make it?