C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar best known for his works of fiction, including 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series and his Christian apologetics.

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight."
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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
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"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
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"...If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'."
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"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
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"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
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"I who know many present things by my art,' replied the Hermit with a smile, 'have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
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"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
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"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying."
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