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Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is ...more

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Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion...more

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I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

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Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking...more

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I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

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I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well b...more

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When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?""No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a...more

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I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and...more

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It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

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I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure ...more

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Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every litt...more

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Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

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And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, to...more

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Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

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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 almo...more