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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
Infected
Dies
Time
Life

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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 magician was studying her face with his green eyes. Your face is wet, he said worriedly. I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.
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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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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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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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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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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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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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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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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 horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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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 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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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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You were the one who taught me, he said. I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.
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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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- 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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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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