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Quotes About Magic

Si può sostenere che diventare adulti, cosa che la psicanalisi dovrebbe aiutare a fare, significhi abbandonare il pensiero magico per il pensiero razionale, ma si può ugualmente sostenere che non occorre abbandonare nulla, che ciò che è vero su un dato piano mentale non lo è sull'altro, e che i piani bisogna abitarli tutti, dalla cantina al solaio.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
el encantamiento de enamorarse, lo mejor que existe en el mundo.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
~ Enid Blyton
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. "Well," said Jack at last. "What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?" "Yes!" whispered all the children. "Let's!
~ Enid Blyton
la magia de la vida hace que lo que pensamos, a la larga se vaya haciendo realidad.
~ Enrique Barrios
Llueve siempre en la alta fantasía
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
~ Eoin Colfer
Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
~ Eoin Colfer
First, Cast are blocked out during the weeks of Christmas and New Years. Second, the parade is actually filmed weeks prior Christmas. Sorry to ruin the magic for you but the broadcasts do say at various times previously filmed, taped earlier or something to that effect depending on the station that televises it for you.
~ Eric Root
The animating principle of mana, the effect of magic, the magical efficacy of spirits, and the reality of collective ideas, dreams, and ordeals are all governed by the laws of this interior reality which modern depth psychology is trying to bring to the surface.
~ Erich Neumann
The important thing is that consciousness as the acting center precedes consciousness as the cognitive center, in the same way as ritual precedes myth, or magic ceremonial and ethical action precede the scientific view of the world and anthropological knowledge.
~ Erich Neumann
Life is about capturing the magic of the moment that gives the inspiring power to forge ahead into a world of insight and understanding.
~ Erik Pevernagie
Now is now. And now will never be again. Tomorrow is another country. The magic of the present moment must be found out and be given a further life in the attic of our remembrance. ("Voices of the sea" )
~ Erik Pevernagie
Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur." -Rock, Cats of the Clans
~ Erin Hunter
They were as superstitious as owls!
~ Erin Hunter
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
~ Beatrix Potter
Part of the magic of childhood for most of us, looking back, was the sensation of freedom in your own body - the feeling that these legs were made for skipping.
~ Bee Wilson
You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?' 'Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.' 'What's the catch?' 'You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
There are people who have been touched by, let's call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they're no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that's a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word "barbarian" or the Daily Mail uses "Europe.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said.
~ Ben Aaronovitch