For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.901, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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