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.
("The Last Unicorn")
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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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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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