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The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

by Josephine Tey

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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

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I have an Irish imagination which makes the unknown and the untried more terrible than they are.

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“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: hurt, salvation

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“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people

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“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

tags: inspirational

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