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“Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.’ Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“For he was not fond of events, and hated outright those that rattled his inner equilibrium and made a muddle of the external arrangements of life.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon