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Describe Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a…
- Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.
- Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect,…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
- Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction…
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