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He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love.

He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them.

But what was he actually?

He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.


Michael Ende

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MICHAEL MORPURGO My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of ...
MICHAEL KORS Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
MICHAEL POLLAN 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER