“He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.”
Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 34 (p. 310)
“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”
— Erich Segal, book Love Story
Source: Love Story
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