“Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.”
Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable
The Unnamable (1954)
“There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
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