"Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.“
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"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."
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"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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"Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning."
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
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