“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.”
― Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
― Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard”
― Betsy and Joe
― Betsy and Joe
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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