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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
    tags: friends, friendship
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  • #11
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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  • #12
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: money
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books
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  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables-books
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    Victor Hugo
    “Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables
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  • #16
    Victor Hugo
    “Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: bishop-les-mis-quotes, les-mis, les-miserables, quotes-by-the-bishop-in-les-mis, religion-christianity, victor-hugo
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  • #17
    “The human body is equipped for aquatic life in many ways, perhaps even too many for it to be a mere coincidence.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: evolution, fish, science
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    “In the water, as any fish will tell you, we can't see everything. For seeing alone isn't enough.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: fish, science
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    “We have neither tentacles nor limestone exoskeletons, but are we really so different from coral?”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: evolution, ocean, science
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  • #20
    “A human being is nothing more than a very large community, on every level.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: evolution, microbiology, science, society
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  • #21
    “When school ends, everyone must relearn in their own way”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: learning, science
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    “By being aware of our place and role in the ecosystem, we preserve it.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: biology, ecology, evolution, science
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    “And what could be more silent and less interesting than a whelk?
    And yet...”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: fish, ocean, science
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  • #24
    “Even before humanity realized the earth spins on its axis, they had understood that the sea belongs to everyone”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: ecology, ocean, science
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  • #25
    “Don't try to exchange words, only to share that which transcends words.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: communication, science
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  • #26
    “Stories are meant to come to life, to be recounted out loud, with sweeping gestures, with friends present, with questions and stunned expressions. It's hard to write them, because you have to pin them down, turn them into portraits, choose a single angle, and reduce them to a single dimension.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: storytelling, writing
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  • #27
    “The survival of a species often depends on the aid of multiple other creatures.”
    ― Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
    tags: evolution, fish, science
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