Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be an Interesting Person and then see whether
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“Alas for us all! And for all that walk the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose,”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Everyone has some kind of debt. Such is life. Debts and liabilities, obligations, gratitude, payments, doing something for someone. Or perhaps for ourselves? For in fact we are always paying ourselves back and not someone else. Each time we are indebted we pay off the debt to ourselves. In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts, To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.”
― Baptism of Fire
― Baptism of Fire
“That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. *”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“It is best to love first what you are fitted to love,”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Don’t you think”—he smiled—“that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?” “No, I don’t. And do you know why?” “No.” Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. “Because it would be the first proof I’ve ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
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