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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
Unicorn
Hardly
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What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. Always, always, it sighed, faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.
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The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that? (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
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Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.
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..no 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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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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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.
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The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
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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.
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If she had touched me, he said very softly, I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
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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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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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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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