...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

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