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“La prontezza dell'intendere e l'acutezza del discernere è tuo dono: ma non ne usavo a tua gloria. Perciò non servivano al mio profitto, bensì alla mia rovina.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“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.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― The God of Small Things
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― The God of Small Things
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
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Studi Tolkieniani
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Un gruppo in lingua italiana dove incontrarsi tra appassionati delle opere di John Ronald Reuel Tolkien o relative a suoi scritti
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