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9256f59
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the particular plant longed for by the wife, which was originally parsley, was a well-known abortifacient.
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Philip Pullman |
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a753f3e
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You are an enemy of the Church, Lee Scoresby. By their fruits shall ye know them.
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Philip Pullman |
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62abc34
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Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it."
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semiotics
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Philip Pullman |
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989692e
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There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.
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Philip Pullman |
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5520bfc
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men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
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Philip Pullman |
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17f9aca
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The Authority considers that conscious beings of every kind have become dangerously independent, so Metatron is going to intervene much more actively in human affairs.
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Philip Pullman |
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f97f82d
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The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.
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Philip Pullman |
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6649716
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But he might have had a bang on the head!" said Joan. "Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!" "Hmm," said the receptionist, and wrote on a pink slip of paper."
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hospitals
rats
rodents
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Philip Pullman |
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8516f4a
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the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.
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Philip Pullman |
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64eca02
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Ovo je Fritz: beskoristan je, kao sto vidis. Posve neodgovoran. No, s druge strane, Fritz se samo igrao pripovjedaca. Da je pravi majstor poput urara, znao bi kako svaki cin ima svoju posljedicu. Iza svakog tik slijedi tak. Iza recenice - Bio jednom... - mora slijediti prica, inace ce slijediti nesto drugo, a to moze biti puno opasnije od price.
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dječja
horor
priča
sat
satni-mehanizam
urar
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Philip Pullman |
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776fd77
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That's the duty of the old," said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old."
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Philip Pullman |
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0cbc22b
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The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
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Philip Pullman |
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419d053
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Auf der Suche nach einer Beschaftigung ging Mary zu den Netzknupfern und bot ihre Hilfe an. Als sie sah, wie die Mulefa arbeiteten, nicht jeder fur sich namlich, sondern immer zu zweit, weil sie jeweils zwei Russel brauchten, um einen Knoten zu knupfen, fiel ihr ein, wie die Mulefa uber ihre Hande gestaunt hatten, mit denen sie naturlich ganz allein solche Tatigkeiten ausfuhren konnte. Zuerst hatte sie das Gefuhl, den Mulefa dadurch uberleg..
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Philip Pullman |
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ca6259f
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Vielleicht tun wir manchmal nicht das Richtige, weil das Falsche uns gefahrlicher erscheint. Wir wollen aber nicht, dass jemand denken konnte, wir hatten Angst. Deshalb tun wir das Falsche, nur weil es gefahrlich ist. Uns ist es wichtiger, furchtlos zu erscheinen, als richtig zu urteilen.
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Philip Pullman |
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6e637f8
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Du hast gesagt, ich sei ein Krieger [...] Du sagtest, das sei meine Natur und ich durfe mich nicht dagegen wehren. Aber du hattest Unrecht, Vater. Ich habe nur gekampft, weil ich musste. Uber meine Natur kann ich nicht bestimmen, wohl aber uber mein Handeln. Und das werde ich, denn jetzt bin ich frei.
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Philip Pullman |
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8e0dc30
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Als Christin hatte sie sich zugehorig gefuhlt. Nach ihrem Austritt aus der Kirche war sie unendlich frei gewesen, aber auch ohne Halt in einem Universum ohne Zweck.
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Philip Pullman |
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12fa48d
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Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them.
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Philip Pullman |
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8183fc4
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At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth... At the height of the invocation the Intercessor lifted the cloth to reveal in the dimness a glass dome inside which there was something too distant to see, until he pulled a string attached to a shutter above, letting a ray of sunlight through to strike the dome exactly. Then it became clear: a little thing like a weatherva..
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crookes
holy
ignorance
moral-lesson
oratory
science
william-crookes
wisdom
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Philip Pullman |
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e054e2d
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If Mrs. Coulter saw his reaction, she didn't show it. She went on: "Look, Will, I don't know how you came to meet my daughter, and I don't know what you know already, and I certainly don't know if I can trust you; but equally, I'm tired of having to lie. So here it is: the truth." --
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Philip Pullman |
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31a5c14
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where no light shone from the iron-dark sky, and where a mist obscured the horizon on every side. The ground was bare earth, beaten flat by the pressure of millions of feet, even though those feet had less weight than feathers; so it must have been time that pressed it flat, even though time had been stilled in this place; so it must have been the way things were. This was the end of all places and the last of all worlds.
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Philip Pullman |
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7f97fef
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The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.
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Philip Pullman |
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442b14e
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Will, I used to come here in my Oxford and sit on this exact same bench whenever I wanted to be alone, just me and Pan. What I thought was that if you - maybe just once a year - if we could come here at the same time, just for an hour or something, then we could pretend we were close again-because we would be close, if you sat here and I sat just here in my world -" "Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Whenever I am in the w..
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Philip Pullman |
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0b3afcb
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He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
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Philip Pullman |
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123b599
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Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.
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Philip Pullman |
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316a7c4
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I stay here and drink spirits because the men here took my armor away, and without that, I can hunt seals but I can't go to war; and I am an armored bear; war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.
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Philip Pullman |
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f5f3ca4
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I guess you are," said Lee. "You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the witches?" "Yes," said Grumman. "And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same."
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Philip Pullman |
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bc727f0
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the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them
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Philip Pullman |
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She had suddenly realized something about people like this -- whether they were businessmen, policemen, civil servants, hotel proprietors, landlords, or what: it was that they didn't mean what they said. They never told the truth. What they seemed to be doing -- catching criminals, buying and selling, banking, administering, making things -- wasn't the real business of their lives at all. It was a cover. They were only playing at it, and th..
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power
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Philip Pullman |
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0f1c66e
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I've just read it so much, it memorized itself.
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Philip Pullman |
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6ced9f0
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My daughter!" cried Lord Asriel, exulting. "Isn't it something to bring a child like that into the world? You'd think it was enough to go alone to the king of the armored bears and trick his kingdom out of his paws--but to go down into the world of the dead and calmly let them all out! And that boy; I want to meet that boy; I want to shake his hand. Did we know what we were taking on when we started this rebellion? No. But did they know--th..
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Philip Pullman |
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079aef7
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Beacause if they think the Dust is bad, it must be good.
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Philip Pullman |
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6a95afb
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Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.
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malcolm
monkey
ms-coulter
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Philip Pullman |
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f09dd77
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She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.
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Philip Pullman |
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48d596a
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How do you do that?" "By not being human," he said. "That's why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know about this; you can understand the symbol reader."
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Philip Pullman |
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57dbaee
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It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.
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Philip Pullman |
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I wish..." she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on." --
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Philip Pullman |
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fb3a531
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Novels and stories are not arguments; they set out not to convince, but to beguile.
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Philip Pullman |
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And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams.
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his-dark-materials
love
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Philip Pullman |
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90aadcf
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This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you: we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic.
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Philip Pullman |
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a3798c0
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Well, where is God,' said Mrs. Coulter, 'if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the Garden and spoke with Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, and he forbade Moses to look at his face. Later, in the time of Daniel, he was aged--he was the Ancient of Days. Where is he now? Is he still alive, at some inconceivable age, decrepit and demented, unable to think or act or speak and unable ..
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philosophy
religion
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Philip Pullman |
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b99a6e5
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Sunlight shining on the fur of a golden monkey...
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Philip Pullman |
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a2264fa
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I think we need to tell each other everything we've found out. And it'll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we're doing it, so
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Philip Pullman |
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The inn was an old stone-built rambling comfortable sort of place. There was a terrace above the river, where peacocks (one called Norman and the other called Barry) stalked among the drinkers, helping themselves to snacks without the slightest hesitation and occasionally lifting their heads to utter ferocious and meaningless screams. There was a saloon bar where the gentry, if college scholars count as gentry, took their ale and smoked the..
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Philip Pullman |
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d897e7d
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Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.
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Philip Pullman |