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The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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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
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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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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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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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