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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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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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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.
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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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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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But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me β me, Jenny Gluckstein β like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing β recognition is something else.
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Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.
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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
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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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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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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 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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There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
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