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The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, #3)

by Philip Pullman

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Melissa’s Quotes

“Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

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“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

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“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.

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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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