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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: dragon, the-hobbit
    171 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: arthur-rimbaud
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
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    Peter Jackson
    “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”
    ― Peter Jackson
    tags: death, journey, lord-of-the-rings
    441 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour
    550 likes

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  • #13
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    Richard Siken
    “I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
    ― Richard Siken
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  • #15
    Steven Brust
    “Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
    ― Steven Brust, Jhereg
    tags: advice, dragons, manners, misattributed-to-tolkien
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
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  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What does your heart tell you? ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
    tags: aragorn
    547 likes

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    Richard Siken
    “I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush
    through me and it never made any sense, anything.”
    ― Richard Siken
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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gildor
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  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, prophecy, unanticipated
    838 likes

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  • #19
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: belief, hell, paraphrased, perception
    620 likes

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  • #20
    Annabel Pitcher
    “I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
    ― Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
    tags: cursing, god, humor, innocent, middle-finger, privacy, secret, spied
    82 likes

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  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    2660 likes

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  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
    3214 likes

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  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: friendship, frodo
    3555 likes

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  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #25
    Margaret Landon
    “She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
    ― Margaret Landon
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  • #26
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: storytelling-story-tales
    401 likes

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  • #28
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
    24002 likes

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  • #29
    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate
    2217 likes

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  • #30
    Michael Ondaatje
    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
    tags: words
    3118 likes

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  • #31
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51602 likes



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