You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
("The Magus")
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will diewith the rest of your body.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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