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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring