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kennahijja ([personal profile] kennahijja) wrote2007-12-22 09:45 pm
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Missing Quote

Dear Flist,

I do have the brain equivalent of a broken sieve, no doubt about it, but this is driving me *crazy*!

I'm pretty sure there's a poem, or prose quotation, along the lines of "that old ??? of men, love..." (??? being something along the lines of 'deceiver'), and I can't find the original source (or even the correct text)... Google was not my friend, and of course I won't bet my life that it actually exists outside my head...

Does it ring any bells at all?

ETA: Got it - Sappho, and all I really got right was some words and the rhythm :). Thanks for encouraging me to substitute words, though - that did the trick.
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[personal profile] elfflame 2007-12-23 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
well...the parsing makes it sound like it could be Shakespeare... But I don't recognize it specifically.

[identity profile] stuckinsea.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
It kind of sounds like something I heard in the bible, First Corinthians 13:1-13. Maybe there?

He knows God cannot forsake, and the deceiver of love but deceives himself.

Could this be it?

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You sure it's not "that ole devil called Love"?
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