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Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

— Charles de Lint The Little Country (1991)

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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)

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.

Dreams Underfoot (1993)

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)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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