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“'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely adapted to an end.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end.” Ayn Rand, “Anthem” - 1938

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“I make so many beginnings there never will be an end” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“everything has to come to an end, some time.” L. Frank Baum, “The Marvelous Land of Oz” - 1904

“The true beginning of our end.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end; each changing place with that which goes before, in sequent toil all forwards do contend.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.” William Shakespeare, “Venus and Adonis” - 1593

“However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten for fifteen hours.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a...” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end: wherefore the higher the end which attaches to sins in human acts, the graver the sin.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“ I am glad that you are here with me . . . Here at the end of all things, Sam.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped...” Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” - 1962

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” - 1886

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