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“Therefore, even more than at the times fairy tales were invented, it is important to provide the modern child with images of heroes who have to go out into the world all by themselves and who, although originally ignorant of the ultimate things, find secure places in the world by following their right way with deep inner confidence.”
― The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
― The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.”
― The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
― The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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