““Maybe you were better off not knowing.”
“Ignorance is not bliss.””
Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia
Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 29 (p. 245)
“Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
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