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“Maybe you were better off not knowing.”
“Ignorance is not bliss.”

— Robert Charles Wilson Darwinia (1998)

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The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.

Darwinia (1998)

We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.

Spin (2005)

Strange, isn’t it, how people cling most desperately to a thing when it becomes least useful to them?

This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009)

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.

Vortex (2011)

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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