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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?
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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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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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.
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I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
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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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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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..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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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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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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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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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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Sing to me, she said. That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.
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There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
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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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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
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