“If ignorance is bliss, then I'm in heaven now.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
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Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!”
— William Wordsworth, book The Prelude
Bk. XI, l. 108.
Source: The Prelude (1799-1805)
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