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[Wikipedia] Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is a

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• Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. Fresh Start
• I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is… All
• We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not… Appointed
• Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear Cries
• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is… Anyone
• Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong… Book
• when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least… All
• Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we… Book
• They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as… Bitterly
• And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril… Accomplished
• To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I… All
• The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. Beginning
• No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all… All
• I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror… Aware
• Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life. All
• Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's… Added
• It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father. Crosses
• Am I lost or just less found? Found
• And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be. Adventure
• Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried. Been
• The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made… Art
• Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. Believe
• A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But… Any
• Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world. Bigger
• In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a… Ball

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