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But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake it is never finished. -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Peter Soyer Beagle
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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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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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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
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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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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
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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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What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?
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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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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
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- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
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Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
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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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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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I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.
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