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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
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There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
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Laziness means more work in the long run.
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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
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Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
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Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
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The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).
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Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
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Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
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I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
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Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.
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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
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One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
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We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
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