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- ...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature…
- I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-…
- I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the…
- We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
- All good things pass away.
- Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and…
- But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that…
- When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At…
- Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he…
- There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion,…
- 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…
- I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first.…
- Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and…
- Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies…
- Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood…
- Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
- ...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would…
- We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't…
- All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors…
- It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the…
- Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all…
- When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle