“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.”
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