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    Madeline Miller
    “It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    T.H. White
    “The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
    tags: humor, unity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    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
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Laughter is poison to fear.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: a-game-of-thrones, catelyn-stark, fear, george-r-r-martin, happiness, laughter, poison, wise
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: god, religion
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    Madeline Miller
    “I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: depression, pain
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: humility, pain
    590 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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    C.S. Lewis
    “To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: heaven, hell, humanity
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: god
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    C.S. Lewis
    “when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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    Andrea Wulf
    “Nature itself was a republic of freedom.”
    ― Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
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    David Attenborough
    “We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.”
    ― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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    David Attenborough
    “We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves.”
    ― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
    tags: environmental-protection, science
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: evil, future-inspirational
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: death, end, journey, life, path
    357 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: frodo-baggins, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings, return-of-the-king, samwise-gamgee
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
    tags: animals, biology, humanity, immortality, love, malone, the-lost-world
    25 likes



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