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" Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. "
C. S. Lewis
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" The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. "
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" Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. "
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" Joy is the serious business of Heaven. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. "
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" Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. "
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" Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. "
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" If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. "
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" I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. "
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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. "
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" You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. "
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" We are what we believe we are. "
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" Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? "
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" Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. "
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" 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' "
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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "
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" An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. "
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" The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. "
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" Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. "
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" When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. "
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" A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. "
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" Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. "
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" 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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" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "
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