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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

— Charles de Lint Dreams Underfoot (1993)

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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Memory and Dream (1994)

Nothing’s different, but everything has changed.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

Those who live forever, who have no stake in the dance of death’s inevitable approach, can never understand the sanctity of life.

Dreams Underfoot (1993)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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