"Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
We understand more than we know.
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"Pearls are congealed oyster spit.
"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 kno...
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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...
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"I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.
"What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
"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...
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, h...
"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...
"Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy...
"We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment...
"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
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