C. S. Lewis Short Quotes

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

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The only people who object to escapism are jailers.

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'God' said the Ghost, glancing around the landscape.

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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

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Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen.

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

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Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
Digory's view

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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

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Always what we have taken in hand, the same we have achieved.

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And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

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A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

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Without a parable modern physics speaks not to the multitudes.

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Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

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Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

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See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

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You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

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100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

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To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

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Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

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