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  1. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    I was born mortal, and I have been immortal for a long, foolish time, and one day I will be mortal again; so I know something that a unicorn cannot know. Whatever can die is beautiful--more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world.
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  2. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    At last he said to me, '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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  3. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    I have my power at last, but the world is still too heavy for me to move, though my friend Lír might think otherwise.
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  4. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    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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  5. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years-and
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  6. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    They broaden our outlook… set us to looking inward…
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  7. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    But I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. 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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  8. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    She was one woman who knew what to do with a slight moral edge. The
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  9. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    It all seems a bit unfair, my lord, begging your pardon. What could we have done to save the unicorns? We were afraid of the Red Bull. What could we have done?" "One word might have been enough," King Lír replied. "You'll never know now." He
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  10. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    The universe lies to our senses, and they lie to us, and how can we ourselves be anything but liars? For myself, I trust neither the message nor the messenger; neither what I am told, not what I see. There may be truth somewhere but it never gets down to me.
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  11. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    How terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards-exiled,
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  12. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.
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