“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
―The Return of the King
―The Return of the King
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“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
― The Children of Húrin
― The Children of Húrin
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. 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.”
―The Return of the King
―The Return of the King
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― The Hobbit
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― The Hobbit
“Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
― The Hobbit
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
― The Hobbit
“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
―The Fellowship of the Ring
―The Fellowship of the Ring
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James Baldwin
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Born : August 2, 1924
Died : December 1, 1987
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Baldwin
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Born : August 2, 1924
Died : December 1, 1987
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Baldwin
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”