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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)

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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6) by Dan Brown

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‘The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world.’

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I would counter it with what the prisoner told Bruce Wayne, "how can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the human spirit? The fear of death…

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Mike’s Quotes

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

tags: love, separation

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

tags: inspirational, love

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