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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
C. S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child you don't understand.
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and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing a very serious thing indeed.
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Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
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