"What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
We understand more than we know.
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"Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy...
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"We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.
"Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
"Pearls are congealed oyster spit.
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