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Girls like poems better than dead dragons and magic swords,
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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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That is most of it, being a wizard - seeing and listening.
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A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
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What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain
What is gone is gone. — Peter S. Beagle
I've had worse, and I'll have better one day. This is not the end.
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The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
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Avicenna California ... Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
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Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
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I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.
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The sight of men filled her with an old, slow, strange mixture of tenderness and terror.
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Haven't you ever been in a fairy tale before?
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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
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There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it every time.
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment
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Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. — Peter S. Beagle
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
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O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
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Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
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You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.
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A dream that returns so often is like to be a messenger, come to warn you of the future or to remind you of things untimely forgotten.
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When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.
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I love whom I love.
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But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?
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What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?
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There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure) — Peter S. Beagle
The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. I believe you because I choose to; not because I do.
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It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.
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Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.
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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
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You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
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There's more meaning than magic to this. The
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I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
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Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.
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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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Hell of an ornithologist you'd make.
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A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last.
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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
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All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?
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She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most
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She was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.
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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.
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If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
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I sometimes think that a little fear, a little hunger, might be good for us - sharpen our souls,
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It cannot be an ill fortune to have loved a unicorn,
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She loved him too. That's why she let him go.
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Stories never end. We end.
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She was one woman who knew what to do with a slight moral edge. The
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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
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- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
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...the bad dreams are the way I bleed...
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She touched you twice,' he said in a little while. 'The first touch was to bring you to life again, but the second was for you.
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No sorrow will live in me as long as that joysave one, and I thank you for that, too. — Peter S. Beagle
The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
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I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.
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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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But she knew beyond both hope and vanity that men had changed, and the world with them, because the unicorns were gone.
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I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art - not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
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No," she said, answering his eyes. "I can never regret."[ ... ]"I can sorrow," she offered gently, "but it's not the same thing.
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This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?
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Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine.
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No place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.
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It would be a crime to eat such a mouse!" he proclaimed everywhere. "An absolute, shameful, yummy crime.
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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We are our own dragons and our own heroes. We must rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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How terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards - exiled,
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How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime?
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I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.
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So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
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I love you," Laura said hopelessly. "I'd love you if you were afraid of everything in the world.
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The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still
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It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.
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There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.
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Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.
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She said, "I will go no farther.""There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on. — Peter S. Beagle
I'm a magician with no magic, and that's no one at all.
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Anyone can say he's a magician these days. The old standards are gone, the old values have been abandoned. Besides, a real magician has a beard.
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For no one can keep a unicorn in his head for long;
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Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and
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As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
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They broaden our outlook ... set us to looking inward ...
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I will keep the colour of your eyes until no other in the world remembers your name.
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I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.
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The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
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When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be.
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and even the feral, near-wild Third Cat, whose true name he had never discovered, as one has to do with cats, trailed
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There never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.
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