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The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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.
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I came alive when I started loving you.
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The only people who hate escapism are jailers.
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But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
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No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
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Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that suits him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
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By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
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I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
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Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
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If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
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