“I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
― An Experiment in Criticism
― An Experiment in Criticism
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