C. S. Lewis
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“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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“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.” -C. S. Lewis
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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.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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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“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.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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.” -C. S. Lewis
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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.” -C. S. Lewis
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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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“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.” -C. S. Lewis
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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C. S. Lewis
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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” -C. S. Lewis
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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.” -C. S. Lewis
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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
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“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” -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.” -C. S. Lewis
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“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.” -C.…
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“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
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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.” -C. S. Lewis
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. -C. S. Lewis
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