There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Bourget - There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity - wist.info quote

Paul Bourget (1852-1935) French critic, poet, novelist
Cosmopolis, ch. 5 (1892) [tr. Arnot (1905)]
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Alternate translation:

There is such a thing as voluntary blindness which is little better than collusion.
[tr. Moffett (1898)]