And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.937, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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