“Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 20
“Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.”
— Orson Scott Card, book Homebody
Homebody (1998)
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Source: Gone with the Wind