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I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, ...

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(...) “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfe...

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J. K. RowlingThe Tales of Beedle the Bard

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them ...

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Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: pu...

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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly."This is not the way that things end when...

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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have s...

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Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If yo...

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Philip PullmanFairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

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Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tal...

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So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.

A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.