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“You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.”
― The Secret Commonwealth
― The Secret Commonwealth
“But then she remembered what the gyptians had said: Include things, don’t leave them out. Look at things in their context. Include everything.”
― The Secret Commonwealth
― The Secret Commonwealth
“with no more weight than a shadow.”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“Nothing is just anything.”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“She couldn't get any further at that point. The sky full of stars seemed dead and cold, everything in it the result of the mechanical, indifferent interactions of molecules and particles that would continue for the rest of time whether Lyra lived or died, whether human beings were conscious or unconscious: a vast silent empty indifference, all quite meaningless.
Reason had brought her to this state. She had exalted reason over every other faculty. The result had been - was now - the deepest unhappiness she had ever felt.”
― The Secret Commonwealth
Reason had brought her to this state. She had exalted reason over every other faculty. The result had been - was now - the deepest unhappiness she had ever felt.”
― The Secret Commonwealth
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