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Ship of Magic

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It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
Wintrow

One does not gather many unique memories, hauled out on a beach.
Paragon

Somehow, you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong. I, however, have not.
Amber

There had been a few occasions when words had so reached into him and settled their truth in him like roots in rich earth. Some of the very best teachers at the monastery could wake this awe in him, when they spoke in simple words a truth that had swum unvoiced inside him.
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But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at a blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.

the Fool in "the Golden Fool"