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It turns out that I had never read the book of The Neverending Story. I had seen the movie, but the book is much different, much longer.
Interesting passages (SPOILER ALERT)
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Cairon to Atreyu:
"You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise, just as it is in the eyes of the Childlike Empress. You may only search and inquire, never judge."
Engywook to Atreyu:
Gate 1: The Great Riddle - "Wait and see what the sphinxes decide - without hoping to know why."
Gate 2: The Magic Mirror - "When you stand before it, you see yourself. But not as you would in an ordinary mirror. You don't see your outward appearance; what you see is your real innermost nature. If you want to go through, you have to - in a manner of speaking - go into yourself."
Gate 3: The No-key gate- "If someone succeeds in forgetting all purpose, in wanting nothing at all - to him the gate will open of its own accord."
On the Auryn's inscription, seen by Bastian: "Do What You Wish"
Grograman the lion to Bastian: "It means that you must do what you really and truly want. And nothing is more difficult."
Argax the monkey to Bastian: "You can only wish as long as you remember your world. These people here used up all their memories. Without a past you can't have a future. (...) Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore."
Bastian:
"He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. (...) 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."
"... (A) longing of a very different kind made itself felt, a desire that he had never felt before and that was different in every way from all his previous wishes: the longing to be capable of loving."
"He kept seeing the picture before his eyes. It was as though this man wanted to say something to him but could not, because of the block of ice he was imprisoned in. The boy without a name wanted to help him, wanted to make the ice melt."
Father to Bastian: "A day like this happens only once in a lifetime - and some people never have one."
Interesting passages (SPOILER ALERT)
------------------------------------
Cairon to Atreyu:
"You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise, just as it is in the eyes of the Childlike Empress. You may only search and inquire, never judge."
Engywook to Atreyu:
Gate 1: The Great Riddle - "Wait and see what the sphinxes decide - without hoping to know why."
Gate 2: The Magic Mirror - "When you stand before it, you see yourself. But not as you would in an ordinary mirror. You don't see your outward appearance; what you see is your real innermost nature. If you want to go through, you have to - in a manner of speaking - go into yourself."
Gate 3: The No-key gate- "If someone succeeds in forgetting all purpose, in wanting nothing at all - to him the gate will open of its own accord."
On the Auryn's inscription, seen by Bastian: "Do What You Wish"
Grograman the lion to Bastian: "It means that you must do what you really and truly want. And nothing is more difficult."
Argax the monkey to Bastian: "You can only wish as long as you remember your world. These people here used up all their memories. Without a past you can't have a future. (...) Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore."
Bastian:
"He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. (...) 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."
"... (A) longing of a very different kind made itself felt, a desire that he had never felt before and that was different in every way from all his previous wishes: the longing to be capable of loving."
"He kept seeing the picture before his eyes. It was as though this man wanted to say something to him but could not, because of the block of ice he was imprisoned in. The boy without a name wanted to help him, wanted to make the ice melt."
Father to Bastian: "A day like this happens only once in a lifetime - and some people never have one."
