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Nickname Angel of Imagination
Template Angels we have heard on high
Setting Lord of Mysteries
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pay-fate's-price

Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to reign and at the same time to enjoy.
--"Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman" (2002), Stefan Zweig