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C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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age

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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art

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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art

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

-C. S. Lewis

birthday

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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change

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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courage

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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education

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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experience

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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failure

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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faith

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

-C. S. Lewis

faith

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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fear

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

-C. S. Lewis

friendship

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

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friendship

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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future

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

-C. S. Lewis

god

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

-C. S. Lewis

god

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

-C. S. Lewis

god

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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god

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

-C. S. Lewis

god

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

-C. S. Lewis

god

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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good

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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great

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

-C. S. Lewis

happiness

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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happiness

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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history

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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history

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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imagination

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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life

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

-C. S. Lewis

love

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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love

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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marriage

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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men

C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

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