Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.
Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces towards ea...
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know.
Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.
It might not be fair, but no one’s to blame.
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the t...
I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all
I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll...
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 ab...
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympa...
And was it true before Pythagoras realized it? Malcolm thought. Yes, he said. It must have been. So he didn’t invent it. He discovered it. Yes. Good. Now let’s take one of the alethiometer symbols.
Algunas historias son así. Cuando se les ha dado cuerda, nada las detiene; avanzan hasta alcanzar el final previsto. Aunque los personajes deseen con todas sus fuerzas modificar su destino, son incapa...
Всичко ти е ясно, всичко разбираш, но то е толкова дълбоко, че не можеш да се добереш до дъното.
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
With ambitious aimagainst the throne and monarchy of Godrais’d impious war in Heav’n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •
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Arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death.
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. We
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.