No matter how cleverly the jealous lover hides his feelings, they are easily discovered by the woman who inspires them and who begins to use strategies of her own. She tries to deceive us about the things that might make us unhappy, and she succeeds, for how could a harmless phrase betray to the unwary hearer the lies that it conceals?
 Marcel Proust, The Prisoner (1923). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Prisoner
Topic strategy hiding
Date 1923
Language English
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Note Translated by Carol Clark
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