"Smiley himself was one of those solitaries who seem to have come into the world fully educated at the age of eighteen. Obscurity was his nature, as well as his profession . . . A man who, like Smiley, has lived and worked for years among his country's enemies learns only one prayer: that he may never, never be noticed."
--John le Carre
A MURDER OF QUALITY, 1962
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