3,321 Quotes About Magic

  • Author Ilse V. Rensburg
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    Magic in words?” He asks, running his fingers along the spine of an old blue volume with gold edging. “I’ve never needed words so much before. I never knew what power they held having been written. I know of the power of thought and action. This magic is new to me, so perhaps you’re right.

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  • Author W. Somerset Maugham
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    Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

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  • Author Jim Butcher
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    ...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day.I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me.'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!'- Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

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  • Author Jim Butcher
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    Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

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