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"We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile."
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"Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given!"

"The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love, otherwise it will become a desert."

"Tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?"

"Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?"

"The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world."

"Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it's difficult."

"First of all, no messiahs are sent. Secondly, no messiah got it. Lastly, no messiah is. And if there ever was or is, maybe I too am it. As too is every dimwit."

"The Only God 'up there' is Unity of Everything, in Quintessence. Other fancies, gods and fairies are the nansy-pansies of simpletons, or is just plain-simple nonsense."

"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
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"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."

"A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving."

"Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later or sooner."

"Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie."

"You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."

"This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected."

"Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him."
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