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I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too mu...more

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We understand more than we know.

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What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.

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We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is no...more

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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions...more

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Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

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Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to know...more

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So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.