We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness…

J. M. Coetzee
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We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. ✨ J. M. Coetzee (2017). Foe: A Novel, p.98, Penguin
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