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I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
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Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Pero tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.
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with no more weight than a shadow.
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There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again.
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nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.
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whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right.
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Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.
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but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.
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He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good.
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If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care -- the care! -- of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches -- if you thought I would expose my child to that... you are more stupid than you take me for.
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Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.
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Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute.
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Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?
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Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one?
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JACK: I don't understand why you feel like an onion.
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ACTRESS: Nonsense! It was an automaton controlled by the boy's mesmeric waves as part of a plot organised by my rivals.
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You'll be much more impressive if you stay silent and mysterious.
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Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time. You must play the serpent.
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Volto le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Cosi Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.
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Alexander was given a reward, and he went on to become a great hunter of atheists and pagans.
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In Lyra's heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won.
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Do not lie to the Scholar.
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Who is this man who's got the knife?
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I hold the subtle knife on behalf of the Guild.
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For a human being, nothing comes naturally," said Grumman. "We have to learn everything we do."
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On, said the alethiometer. Farther, higher. So on they climbed.
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If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things.
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