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sorrow only increased with knowledge

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sorrow only increased with knowledge

A second echo of Byron's Manfred (1817) in this chapter:

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
—1.1.10-12

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