2 Quotes Tagged: guile

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And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

"How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?"