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“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― The Return of the King
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― The Return of the King
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
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“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”
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“British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.”
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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