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Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to a...more

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That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

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Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

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And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!

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You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept ...more

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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody...more

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Hope springs forever.

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I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

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You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

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Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not ...more

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I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in ...more

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One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then ...more