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The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Teheran
Judith Rumelt
High
Magnus
Else
Institute
Everything
Grandeur
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Timeless
Towered
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Mighty
Unmoving
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Changeable
Failed
Disapproval
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