The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.
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Zum Autor"We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human."
"But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"...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'."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."