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• What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

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  Magic, Use, Unicorn

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• The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

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  Heart, Curse, Effects

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

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• But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

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  Writing, Thinking, Elbows

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• Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

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  Memories, Museums, California

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• I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.

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  Regret, Tears, Want

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

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• Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

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  Running, Attention, Serious

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

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• No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

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  Kings, Grief, Voice

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

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• But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

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  Dream, Real, Moving

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• The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.

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  Eye, Magic In The World, Green

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

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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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  Dream, Lonely, Hero

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

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• What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

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  Use, Wizardry, Unicorn

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

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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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  Beautiful, Forever, World

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

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• My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

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  Son, Profound, Ineptitude

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

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• Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

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  Envy, Secret, Moonlight

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

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• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

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  Rainbow, Horny, Riding

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

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• He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.

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  Father, Hands, Water

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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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  Strong, May, Way

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

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• Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

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  Hero, Men, Needs

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

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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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  Eye, Moon, White

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

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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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  Love Is, Thinking, Parent

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• The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.

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  Grief, Men, Speech

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

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• I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

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  Matter

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

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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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  Eye, Errors, Forever

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

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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.

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  Home, Eye, Ears

  "The Unicorn Sonata". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1996.

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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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  Love And Fear, Humans

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

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