lyubov'yu shutit satana
(with love jokes Satan). 

Here is this line in the four latest full-text translations of EO: 


Tom Beck (2004): for Satan loves а fiendish joke!

Stanley Mitchell (2008): That Satan plays оn gentlefolk. 

Henry Hoyt (2008): Тhе Evil Оnе plays jokes with love. 

D.M. Thomas (2011): For Satan always jokes with love. 


Ljuba Tarvi
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