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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Correspondance

    This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.
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  2. Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn

    ...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
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  3. A.S. Byatt _ Possession

    It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black, thick, tenacious Victorian dust, a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air acts.
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  4. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...
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  5. William Faulkner _ The Sound and the Fury

    Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."
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  6. Philip Pullman _ Northern Lights

    Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And no one in a thousand years would take a child's daemon away altogether! All that happens is a little cut, and then everything's peaceful. Forever! You see, your daemon's a wonderful friend and com panion when you're young, but at the age we call puberty, the age you're coming to very soon, darling, daemons bring all sort of troublesome thoughts and feelings, and that's what lets Dust in. A quick little operation before that, and you're never troubled again. And your daemon stays with you, only...just not connected. Like a... like a wonderful pet, if you like. The best pet in the world!Wouldn't you like that? {Marisa Coulter}
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  7. Katie McGarry _ Long Way Home

    I already texted Pigpen and Dust and they're heading with us.
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  8. Katie McGarry _ Long Way Home

    Two motorcycles rumble in behind me and park in open spots. It's Pigpen and Dust. They're part of the volunteers tailing me and Violet until we're safe."
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