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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    Albert Camus

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, L'Étranger

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    Albert Camus, The First Man

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #27
    Albert Camus
    “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #29
    Albert Camus
    “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
    Albert Camus

  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
    Albert Camus



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