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“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ”
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“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same -- everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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