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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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