“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― The Blade Itself
― The Blade Itself
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