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title: "2 Magician Self Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a fake life, a crude and undignified and inauthentic charade that nobody was really buying anyway.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/your-magician-self-that-loopy-doppelg-nger-was-always-with-you/)

[Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/lev-grossman-747_fake-life_your-magician-self-that-loopy-doppelg-ng_199118.png)

> [“See, when you had magic in your life, it turned out, when you lived the double life of a secret underground magician, you paid a certain price, which was that your secret other life pulled at you always. Your magician…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/see-when-you-had-magic-in-your-life-it-turned-out-when-you-lived-the/)

[Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/lev-grossman-747_double-life_see-when-you-had-magic-in-your-life-it-t_3174938.jpg)

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