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Author: Philip Pullman
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  1. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.
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  2. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.
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  3. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    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 wracked with pain. "
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  4. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time.You must play the serpent.
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  5. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    You'll be much more impressive if you stay silent and mysterious.
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  6. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    ACTRESS: Nonsense! It was an automaton controlled by the boy's mesmeric waves as part of a plot organised by my rivals.
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  7. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    JACK: I don't understand why you feel like an onion.
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  8. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one?
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  9. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?
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  10. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute.
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  11. Philip Pullman _ La Belle Sauvage

    Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression."
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  12. Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass

    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, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches ― if you thought I would expose my child to that... you are more stupid than you take me for.
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