C. S. Lewis Quotes About Novelists
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He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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.
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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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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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It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
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Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.
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