“Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]”
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“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
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