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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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