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Others ruin themselves trying to win the heart of a certain person who wants nothing to do with them.
and some sacrifice everything for a dream that can never come true.
If you were as old as we are, you’d know there’s nothing but sadness.
‘Why are you so wicked?’ Atreyu asked. ‘Because you creatures had a world,’ Gmork replied darkly, ‘and I didn’t.’
Wherever I go, everything around me turns to desert. I carry it with me. Since I am made of deadly fire, must I not be doomed to everlasting solitude?’
‘Yes,’ said Atreyu. ‘It gives you the means, but it takes away your purpose.’
A ghoulish whisper passed over the glen: ‘Alas! Alas! What light has fallen on our ugliness? Whose eye has seen us? Cruel intruder, whoever you may be, have mercy, take that light away.’
‘Bastian,’ he said. ‘Why do you force me to defeat you in order to save you?’
