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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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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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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
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I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.
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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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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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Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
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Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
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I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.
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Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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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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No, he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.
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