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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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    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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    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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    Takehiko Inoue
    “There is no light for those who do not know darkness.”
    ― Takehiko Inoue
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    Keigo Higashino
    “Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
    ― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X
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    Keigo Higashino
    “A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.”
    ― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X
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    Orson Scott Card
    “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding
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    Hiroshi Sakurazaka
    “Is it true the green tea they serve in Japan at the end of your meal comes free?”
    ― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill
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    Hiroshi Sakurazaka
    “There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?”
    ― hiroshi sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill
    tags: choices, conflict, desire, happiness, path, war
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  • #10
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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  • #11
    “I'm heading out."
    "Oh? Going to try negotiating in person?"
    "I'm going to put a gun to their heads.”
    ― Issui Ogawa, The Lord of the Sands of Time
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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  • #13
    “Heaven is just a construct people who fear death made up.”
    ― Eiji Mikage
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  • #14
    “We are inside soft, sweet and pure white despair.”
    ― Eiji Mikage, 空ろの箱と零のマリア 1
    tags: melancholy, sad
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  • #15
    Isuna Hasekura
    “After a time, her smile faded, then finally reappeared as she sighed. The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness.”
    ― Isuna Hasekura, Spice & Wolf, Vol. 01
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion
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