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Lev Grossman
“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”
Lev Grossman, The Magician King

Seneca
“No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been tripped and felt the full force of his adversary's charge, who has been downed in bloody but not it spirit, one who as often as he falls, rises again with greater defiance than ever.”
Seneca

Iris Murdoch
“To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.”
Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“Real love involves a foundation of respect, honesty, and trust, concepts wholly missing from the pale imitations hawked to us by the folks who script 'unscripted' entertainment.”
Jennifer L. Pozner, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

Belsebuub
“To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.”
Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living

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