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Susan: “You’re saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable?”
Death: “No, humans needs fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
S: “With toothfaries? Hogfather?”
D: “Yes. That’s practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.”
S: “So we can believe the big ones?”
D: “Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.”
S: “They’re not the same at all.”
D: “You think? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve. And then show me an atom of justice, a molecule of mercy!”