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I don’t know what I had felt till then. Perhaps just awe of his splendid anger. The living chick in the shell has known no other world. Through the wall comes a whiteness, but he does not know it is light. Yet he taps at the white wall, not
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“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Thief of Time
― Thief of Time
“All shall love me and despair.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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