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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    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
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: 263, raskolnikov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
    tags: 1869, clinging, detachment, discovery, hippolyte
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.”
    ― Dostoyevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Grand Inquisitor
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
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    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: definitions, forgiveness
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    Mario Puzo
    “Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.”
    ― Mario Puzo, Omerta
    tags: mario-puzo, omerta
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    Salvador Dalí
    “It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
    ― Salvador Dali
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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