Original artwork, not a still
If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker argues that keeping a secret truly safe requires concealing it even from one's own mind. It must remain known somewhere, yet never be allowed to surface in any form clear enough to name until the moment it must be used. Secrecy becomes a discipline of deliberate self-deception.
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