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“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring

“The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist

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