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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 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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  5. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good.
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  6. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.
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  7. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    Somewhere out there is the origin of all the Dust, all the death, the sin, the misery, the destructiveness in the world. Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it... That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it.
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  8. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold.
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  9. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death.
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  10. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    -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 único que puede cambiar es lo que hace.
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  11. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a universe like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set in the universe we know. The third volume will move between the universes.
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  12. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    was such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.
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