Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant. " "Oh, that won't … - J. R. R. Tolkien

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Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant. " "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that. " "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.

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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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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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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

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