TRUTH?
"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms." -Casanova
Introduction to Chapter Twelve: The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story by Robert and Dayna Baer, Crown Publishers: 2011
The Company We Keep explores how life in the CIA distances operatives from family and friends, shifting the priority and focus from their private lives to their professional lives. The quote above refers to the lies and half-truths CIA agents tell informants, family members, lovers, spouses and friends in the course of an ordinary working day.
Note: Casanova was a recognized womanizer. Today, his name remains associated with the art of seduction: Cultivating activities that gave pleasure to the senses was a primary focus of his life.
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