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“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
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“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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