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• How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

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  Jobs, Angel, Wings

  Peter S. Beagle (2009). “We Never Talk about My Brother”

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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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  Heartbroken, Forever, Bagpipes

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.140, Tachyon Publications

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• When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

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  Hero, Two, Young

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances”

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• And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

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  Years, Twenties, Dare

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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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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  Beautiful, Thinking, Ugly

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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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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  Night, Hands, Long

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.23, Tachyon Publications

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• Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

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  Horse, Latin, Animal

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”, Del Rey

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• there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

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  Happy Endings, Ends

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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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  Gone, Stolen, Grows

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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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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  Daughter, Running, Kings

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• Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

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  Song, Farewell, Butterfly

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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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  Patience, Lying, Hero

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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• We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

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  Dream, History, Honor

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• Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

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  Loneliness, Rain, Kids

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

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  Empty, Said, Knows

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

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  Kings, Dark, Castles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

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  Beautiful, Silly, Moving

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

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  Immortal, Generous

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

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  Dream, Sleep, Daylight

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

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  Choices, Needs, Gone

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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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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  Dream, Lasts, Unicorn

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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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  Mean, Fate, Sake

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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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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  Faces, Forget, Stranger

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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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  Farewell, Doors, World

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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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  Cat, Sea, Shoes

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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