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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

—Roald Dahl, 1990

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

—Plotinus, c. 255

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965