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Quoting these lines from 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' by Richard Bach, 1970

The book tells the story of a seagull who is bored with the daily squabbles over food... Read on ..

"We all lead boring, ordinary, mundane existences and now and then a bird of paradise comes along, and we all get scared. It scares us because we're not like that, our feathers aren't brilliantly hued in red and green, we're brown and gray and seeing that bird of paradise makes us feel ugly or as though in someway we have failed. Some of us love to watch that bird, and we dream that one day we might be birds of paradise too..."

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