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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you?' said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. 'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: enlightenment, epiphanies, ignorance, knowing, knowledge, rarity, understanding, wisdom

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