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My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too.
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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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Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
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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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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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I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.
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Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!
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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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I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.
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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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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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Her face was a stranger's face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.
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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know.
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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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The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough — what greater sin is there than that?
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Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
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It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.... There is much misjudgment in the world.... We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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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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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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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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Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.
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I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.
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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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He was not lying, merely organizing events more sensibly.
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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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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
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Peter S. Beagle
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Born:
April 20, 1939
(age 85)
Bio:
Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction.
Known for:
The Last Unicorn (1968)
A Fine and Private Place (1960)
Tamsin (1999)
The Innkeeper's Song (1993)
Summerlong (2016)
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