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The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Saul Bellow
Secret, Innocence, Guilty
1987 More Die of Heartbreak.
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.