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- Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
- Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more…
- Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in…
- The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
- Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
- One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
- The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
- All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
- If we all got angry together something might be done.
- The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is…
- Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to…
- Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that…
- Above all shadows rides the sun.
- Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land…
- The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.…
- She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else…
- The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And…
- All that is gold does not glitter.
- You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide