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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

  • #4
    J.M. Barrie
    “To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #5
    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl, The Twits

  • #6
    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    John Lennon

  • #12
    Herman Melville
    “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
    Herman Melville

  • #13
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #14
    Frida Kahlo
    “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
    Frida Kahlo

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    Alan M. Turing
    “Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.”
    Alan Turing

  • #17
    Bram Stoker
    “I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #18
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

  • #19
    Sappho
    “Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”
    Sappho

  • #20
    Sappho
    “Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.”
    Sappho, A Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
    Gandalf: 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 to us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #23
    Constantin Stanislavski
    “The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.”
    Konstantin Stanislavski

  • #24
    Constantin Stanislavski
    “The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.”
    Konstantin Stanislavski
    tags: wisdom

  • #25
    Agatha Christie
    “The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
    Agatha Christie

  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
    My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #27
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #29
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #30
    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach



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