betray

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fd9be33	...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.	betray betrayal confront desire love reveal secret undeclared unspoken	Robin Hobb
79f1f84	Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?	betray betrayal betrayed bursting charm experience frank frankness good goodness ideal ideals important knowledge life old older trivial understand virtue virtuous years young younger	John Fowles
1e556a2	What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.	betray collect cultivate decide discern employ hide knowledge learn path power purchase reveal secret seek-out threat trust use utilize	Robin Hobb

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

betray betrayal confront desire love reveal secret undeclared unspoken

Robin Hobb

79f1f84

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

betray betrayal betrayed bursting charm experience frank frankness good goodness ideal ideals important knowledge life old older trivial understand virtue virtuous years young younger

John Fowles

1e556a2

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.

betray collect cultivate decide discern employ hide knowledge learn path power purchase reveal secret seek-out threat trust use utilize

Robin Hobb