Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. Bu…

H. L. Mencken
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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops ✨ H.L. Mencken (2013). Minority Report, p.363, Knopf
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