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“We need to imagine as well as measure.”
- The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
“Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.”
- The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
734: The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman (2019) Intro
Series: The Book of Dust - 2
Rating: 4.03 ⭐️
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Genre: Adventure, British Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy
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“Knowledge is like water: it always finds gaps to leak through. There are too many people, too many journals, too many places of learning, who already know something about it.”
- The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
“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, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
“What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is." "Spirit is what matter does.”
- The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
“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, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
“You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.”
- The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (2019) (The Book of Dust - 2)
734: The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman (2019) Summary (7 min)
Series: The Book of Dust - 2
Rating: 4.03 ⭐️
Book at a glance: The Secret Commonwealth (2019) by Philip Pullman is the second book in The Book of Dust trilogy, following La Belle Sauvage and continuing the adventures of Lyra Silvertongue, now a young woman.
Set ten years after the events of His Dark Materials , this novel explores a darker, more mature world where politics, philosophy, and mystery intertwine, sending Lyra on a perilous journey across Europe and Asia to uncover the meaning behind a mysterious murder and the enigmatic power of Dust.
Genre: Adventure, British Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy
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734: The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman (2019) - 4.03 ⭐️
Series: The Book of Dust - 2
Book at a glance: Lyra and Pan journey across a divided world of mystery, love, and loss, pursued by enemies and haunted by doubt, seeking truth in the tangled realms of Dust and the Secret Commonwealth.
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“The effect was as if each teacher was being examined by a fierce inspector, and each lesson became an ordeal in which not the pupils but the teachers were being tested.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
“This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you; we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic. Every secret service knows this paradox.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
“consciousness is a perfectly normal property of matter, like mass or anbaric charge; that there is a field of consciousness which pervades the entire universe, and which makes itself apparent most fully – we believe – in human beings.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
“Once we use the word spiritual, we don’t have to explain anymore, because it belongs to the Church then, and no one can question it.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
“Speaking for myself, I’ve always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
733: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman (2017) Intro
Series: The Book of Dust - 1
Rating: 4.15 ⭐️
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy
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“War asks many people to do unreasonable things.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
“How can knowing something be sinful?”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)
“He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.”
- La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (2017) (The Book of Dust - 1)

