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“I’ve decided what I must do. I shall stay with you day and night, and do it cheerfully and willingly, for the sake of Baruch. I shall guide you to Lyra, if I can, and then I shall guide you both to Lord Ariel. I have lived thousands of years, and unless I am killed, I shall live many thousands of years more; but I never met a nature that made me so ardent to do good, or to be so kind, as Baruch’s did. I failed so many times, but each time his goodness was there to redeem me. Now it’s not, I shall have to try without it. Perhaps I shall fail from time to time, but I shall try all the same. -Balthamos”

Duty Personal Growth Perseverance Lost Love Bittersweet His Dark Materials

Author:Philip Pullman

“Ahead of them, over the mountains to the north, the pale arcs and loops of the Northern Lights began to glow and tremble. Lyra saw through half-closed eyes, and felt a sleepy thrill of perfect happiness, to be speeding north under the Aurora.”

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Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“That's the duty of the old, 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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Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“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.”

People Life Believe Evil Names Good And Evil His Dark Materials

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”

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Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. 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 dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight.”

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Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“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.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.”

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.”

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Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.”

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Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”

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Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.”

Heaven Republic Elsewhere His Dark Materials

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Everything means something.”

Mean His Dark Materials

Author:Philip Pullman

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”

Inspirational Humans Said Human Beings Students His Dark Materials

Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”

World Born Sun Sky His Dark Materials

Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.”

Said Heaven Republic His Dark Materials

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.”

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Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton

“Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.”

Ifs His Dark Materials

Author:Philip Pullman