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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.

  Thomas Mann

  Secret, Arches, Beloved

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.45, Vintage

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