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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing -- to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from -- my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.
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If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
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Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
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The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity solely and simply because you happen to think it true; they always suppose you are preaching it because you like it or think it good for society or something of that sort. Now a clearly maintained distinction between what the Faith actually says and what you would like it to have said or what you understand or what you personally find helpful or t..
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I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
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I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
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Everything" is a subject on which there is not much to be said.
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You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
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We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.
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God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
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Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
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They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived."
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Their own strength has betrayed them. They have [...] pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads."
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
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If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Who believes in Aslan nowadays?
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This is where dreams--dreams, do you understand--come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
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The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
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'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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I have always -- at least, ever since I can remember -- had a kind of longing for death.
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Ah, Psyche," I said, "have I made you so little happy as that?"
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'Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'"
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
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