Philip Pullman book Northern Lights
Variant: Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 21 : Lord Asriel's Welcome
“It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.”
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 114
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