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c8b913a
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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life
jonathan-rebeck
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Peter S. Beagle |
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f0da447
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Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.
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sleep
immortality
jonathan-rebeck
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Peter S. Beagle |
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cd176e4
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Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence except for the reaction of other people to that fact. So he listens very closely to what people say to one another about him, whether it's good or bad, because it indicates that he lives in the same world they do, and that all his fears about being invisible, impotent, lacking some mysterious dimension that other people have, are groundless.
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proof-of-existence
jonathan-rebeck
invisible
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Peter S. Beagle |
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87b0b53
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There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.
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living
joys-of-the-dead
dear
nothing-ends
jonathan-rebeck
laura-durand
michael-morgan
self-centered
unworthy
fragile
worthy
righteous
happy-endings
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Peter S. Beagle |
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ea07861
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"I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is forever. You will have this good time again and again, a million times over, until it will be like a play in which you and Laura and a few fugitive lives sit around an imaginary fire and talk and sing songs and love each other and sometimes throw imaginary brands at the eyes blinking beyond the circle of imaginary firelight. And then I thought - and this is where I sounded just like a real philosopher - And even when you admit that you know every line in the play and every song that will be sung, even when you know that this evening spent with friends is pleasant and joyful because you remember it as pleasant and joyful and wouldn't change it for the world, even when you know that anything you feel for these good friends has no more reality than a dream faithfully remembered every night for a thousand years - even then it goes on. Even then it has just begun."
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fugitive-lives
imaginary-firelight
jonathan-rebeck
laura-durand
michael-morgan
forever
eternity
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Peter S. Beagle |