His Dark Materials Quotes

• En este salvaje Abismo/ La matriz de la Naturaleza, y quizás su tumba--/ Ni de mar, ni de costa, ni de aire, ni de fuego,/ Sino de todo esto en sus causas preñadas mezcladas/ Confusamente, y que así deben luchar siempre,/ A menos que el Todopoderoso Hacedor les ordene/ Sus oscuros materiales para crear más mundos,--/ En este salvaje Abismo el cauteloso Demonio/ Se paró en el borde del Infierno y miró un rato,/ Ponderando su viaje; porque ningún estrecho frith/ Tenía que cruzar.

  John Milton

  Fighting, Dark, Fire

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

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• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

  Philip Pullman

  Change, Being Yourself, Life Changing

  Philip Pullman (1995). "Aurora boreal"

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• I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

  Philip Pullman

  Maturity, Anxiety, Young

  Philip Pullman (1995). "Aurora boreal"

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• I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

  Philip Pullman

  Life, Believe, Names

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• Te estaré buscando, Will, cada momento, cada instante. Y cuando nos volvamos a encontrar, nos aferraremos tan fuerte que nada ni nadie nos separará. Cada átomo de mí y cada átomo de ti... Viviremos en los pájaros y en las flores y en las libélulas y en los pinos y en las nubes y en esas pequeñas motas de luz que ves flotar en los rayos del sol... Y cuando utilicen nuestros átomos para crear nuevas vidas, no podrán tomar sólo uno, tendrán que tomar dos, uno de ti y otro de mí, estaremos tan unidos.

  Philip Pullman

  Flor, Nubes, Luz

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

  Philip Pullman

  Inspirational, Students, Said

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Heaven, Republic, Elsewhere

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

  Philip Pullman

  Si

  "Lyra's Oxford". Book by Philip Pullman, 2003.

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• And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

  Philip Pullman

  Heaven, Republic, Said

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

  Philip Pullman

  Sky, World, Sun

  Philip Pullman (1995). "Aurora boreal"

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Thinking, Heaven

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

  Philip Pullman

  Struggle, Stupidity, Human Life

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• En este abismo salvaje, El vientre de la naturaleza y tal vez su tumba.

  John Milton

  Nature, Graves, Womb

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• Everything means something.

  Philip Pullman

  Media

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• Tolkien me parece reaccionario, conservador, temeroso de un mundo moderno. Temeroso de cualquier cosa que no esté sancionada por el paso de largos eones de tiempo. Creo que lo que estoy haciendo en Sus materiales oscuros es políticamente lo contrario de eso.

  Philip Pullman

  Oscuro, Pensar, Largo

  "Sus materiales Grimm: Una conversación con Philip Pullman". Entrevista con Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. Noviembre/diciembre de 2012.

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• The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

  Philip Pullman

  Effort, Finals, Roger

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