"Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit."

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"Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit."

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"That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out."

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"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."

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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."

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"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."

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