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Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn__ enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that__ not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.
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Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn__ enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that__ not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

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