“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
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“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
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"I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. "
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"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. "
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“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.”
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C.S. Lewis (Irish-born author and scholar)
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Born : November 29, 1898
Died : November 22, 1963
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author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics of fantasy literature.
His first successful work of fiction was Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel into which Lewis wove Christian allusions and themes. It and many of Lewis’s later books were read aloud and critiqued at meetings of the Inklings, a group of fellow writers who influenced him significantly. Out of the Silent Planet was followed by the equally successful Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). Those three novels, which form one of the earliest and best of science-fiction trilogies.
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Born : November 29, 1898
Died : November 22, 1963
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author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics of fantasy literature.
His first successful work of fiction was Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel into which Lewis wove Christian allusions and themes. It and many of Lewis’s later books were read aloud and critiqued at meetings of the Inklings, a group of fellow writers who influenced him significantly. Out of the Silent Planet was followed by the equally successful Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). Those three novels, which form one of the earliest and best of science-fiction trilogies.
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"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
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“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― The Silver Chair
― The Silver Chair
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
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“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
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“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”
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