Olivia SudjicIt never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.
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When something or someone is all-knowing, it is easy to take them for granted. It becomes easy to think that they have all the answers, that they are perfect, and that they are always right. When you realize that someone has all the answers, or is perfect, or always right, you need to remind yourself of all the things they do not know. The fact is that even the best of us have things we do not know. The human mind is so complicated and so vast that there is always more we will never know than we do know.
Source: Sympathy
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