Peter S. Beagle - A Fine and Private Place (1960)

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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.

Peter S. Beagle
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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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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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 was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.

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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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There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

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