Mr. makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold?no, of course not. no one can do that. but if people think you're foolish enough to try, they don't bother to look at what you're really doing. they le...
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us...
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Por él habría cambiado mi naturaleza. Me habría olvidado del titilar de las estrellas y de la música de la aurora, no habría vuelto a volar en mi vida (...)pero uno no puede cambiar lo que es, lo únic...
A genuine scientist would love the subject for itself; I think I love science for the stories that are told about it.
And at half past nine in the evening at that restaurant table in Portugal, Mary continued, someone gave me a piece of marzipan and it all came back. And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest...
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.
Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don’t want a memory, just a memory
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make th...
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...
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...
In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.
It was the loneliness of his death that upset Malcolm most.
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know.
Lady Harborough... was on the platform, making a short speech in which she described the valuable work her hospital fund was doing. It seemed to consist largely of rescuing unmarried mothers from pove...
Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.
Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don’t want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it’s dangerous
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