#unquestioning

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. . . and though most of the time I did not question the illusion I lived within, there were moments when I could see that everything was beautiful and nothing was right.

Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

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again, again, unquestioned, not fully seen, not wanting to fully see.

Sharon Olds, from Stag’s Leap

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But I've been paying attention for a while now, and I think there's also actual ordinary. People who never wonder if this is all there is, and have never gnashed their teeth at what a raw deal this whole thing inevitably becomes at some point or another, sooner or later.

Caroline Zancan, from We Wish You Luck

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I wonder now, but I didn't wonder then.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

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You've got a simple compact little philosophy of life, all unified, all tied up comfortably together, a few soothing ideas which let you off thinking! But we must think — and that's what's such hell, philosophy is hell, it's contrary to nature, it hurts so . . .

Iris Murdoch, from The Book and the Brotherhood   

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[trixclibrarian]

what’s more than survival is not material