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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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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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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 unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. I know you, he said.
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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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...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.
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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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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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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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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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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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The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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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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