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We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.

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Are you that afraid to die?
No. I simply like to live.

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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

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Life isn't a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn't necessarily get the princess. So what? Who'd want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?

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