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“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa at Sea

“The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.”
― Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies