“...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.”
― A Partisan's Daughter
― A Partisan's Daughter
“I was just trying to open the doors... but walls fell down”
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“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”
― Birds Without Wings
― Birds Without Wings
“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”
― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
― Tancred
― Tancred
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