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      "text": "Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all. Some people risk their lives to conquer a mountain peak. No one, not even they themselves, can really explain why. Others ruin themselves trying to win the heart of a certain person who wants nothing to do with them. Still others are destroyed by their devotion to the pleasures of the table. Some are so bent on winning a game of chance that they lose everything they own, and some sacrifice every thing for a dream that can never come true. Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being somewhere else, and spend their whole lives traveling from place to place. And some find no rest until they have become powerful. In short, there are as many different passions as there are people.",
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      "text": "There are many doors to Fantastica. There are other such magical books. A lot of people read them without noticing. It all depends on who lays hands on the book.",
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      "text": "There are people that can't go to Fantastica. There are those who can but never return. And there are just a few who go to Fantastica and come back. And they make both worlds well again.",
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      "text": "He kept telling himself that he had made Yikka's dearest wish come true. But that didn't make him feel any better. A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.",
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      "text": "\"Have you seen the Nothing, sonny?\" \"Yes, many times.\" \"What does it look like?\" \"As if one were blind.\" \"That's right – and when you get to the human world, the Nothing will cling to you. You'll be like a contagious disease that makes humans blind, so they can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion. Do you know what you and your kind are called there?\" \"No,\" Atreyu whispered. \"Lies!\" Gmork barked.",
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      "text": "Bastian had shown the lion the inscription on the reverse side of the Gem. \"What do you suppose it means?\" he asked. \"'DO WHAT YOU WISH.' That must mean I can do anything I feel like. Don't you think so?\" All at once Grograman's face looked alarmingly grave, and his eyes glowed. \"No,\" he said in his deep, rumbling voice. \"It means that you must do what you really and truly want. And nothing is more difficult.\" \"What I really and truly want? What do you mean by that?\" \"It's your own deepest secret and you yourself don't know it.\" \"How can I find out?\" \"By going the way of your wishes, from one to another, from first to last. It will take you to what you really and truly want.\" \"That doesn't sound so hard,\" said Bastian. \"It is the most dangerous of all journeys.\" \"Why?\" Bastian asked. \"I'm not afraid.\" \"That isn't it,\" Grograman rumbled. \"It requires the greatest honesty and vigilance, because there's no other journey on which it's so easy to lose yourself forever.\"",
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