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  1. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    When the truth catches up with you, don't be a hero, run.
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  2. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    What follows is a truthful account, as best I am able to provide it, of my role in the British deception operation, codenamed Windfall, that was mounted against the East German Intelligence Service {Stasi} in the late nineteen fifties and early sixties, and resulted in the death of the best British secret agent I ever worked with, and of the innocent woman for whom he gave his life.
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  3. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.
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  4. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    To Tabitha, these are facts of history. For those of us who endured them, they are a time of despair, bewilderment and frustration.
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  5. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    Do you now have all the information you require?' 'No.' 'I envy you.
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  6. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    We were wondering, you see,' he said in a faraway voice, 'whether you'd ever considered signing up with us on a more regular basis? People who have worked on the outside for us don't always fit well on the inside. But in your case, we think you might. We don't pay a lot, and careers tend to be interrupted. But we do feel it's an important job, as long as one cares about the end, and not too much about the means.
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  7. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    a night-time journey of the soul
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  8. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    I'm a European, Peter. If I had a mission – if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the enemy, it was to Europe. If I was heartless, I was heartless for Europe. If I had an unattainable ideal, it was of leading Europe out of her darkness towards a new age of reason. I have it still.
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  9. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    The tortured are a class apart. You can imagine – just – where they've been, but never what they've brought back."
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  10. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    The classified cat watches from the kitchen window.
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  11. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    Did I fuck her? No, I bloody well didn't. I made mute, frenzied love to her in pitch darkness for six life-altering hours, in an explosion of tension and lust between two bodies that had desired each other from birth and had only the night to live.
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  12. John le Carré _ A Legacy of Spies

    The tortured are a class apart. You can imagine – just – where they've been, but never what they've brought back.
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