May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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