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Flowers for Algernon

The standard harcover edition of the concluding volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map and extensive appendices. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate

(10 total)

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Daniel Keyes (10)

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I’ve discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to ment…”

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Tagged: Intelligence, Ideologies, Beliefs, Giving, selfishness

“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”

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Tagged: Money, Materials, affection, Giving, sharing

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

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Tagged: Life, Waste, Fear

“Nowadays every time we see each other, after I leave you I go home with the miserable feeling that I’m slow and dense about everything. I review things I’ve said, and come up with all the bright and witty things I should have said, and I feel like kicking myself because I didn’t mention them when we…”

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Tagged: Unsaid Things, Regrets

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com

Tagged: Fear, Wasting Time, Wasting Lives, Not living enough

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

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Tagged: Happiness, comparison, Desire, Dreams, Alone

“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com

Tagged: Choices, decision, Fate, Paths

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Quotes, Make the Most of Your Life, Worrying

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com

Tagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences