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That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. ”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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