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La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)

by Philip Pullman

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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.

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