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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” quote by CS Lewis — Download Open image

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

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I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us into unity, by persecution even and hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God: Judas and Satan as tools…

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Every time you touch me I stop breathing, that's why I never have much to say. Every time I see you, my heart skips a beat and I need to sit down, that's why I always run away. Every time you call my name I forget everything, which is why I never call yours back. Every time you hug me…

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese…

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“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness, such refreshment. Close your eyes. Breathe in again, smell everything mingled together, flowers and earth and leaves and grass. Smell the night. Listen. Nothing at all. Silence, rushing like the sea in your ears. However small…

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“Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want…

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“And it was then that the things I've never liked to talk about began. Not that they were particularly terrible; I've no wish to exaggerate and I suffered less than others. Still, there was one thing in those early days that was really irksome: my habit of thinking like a free man. For instance, I would suddenly be seized with…

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We are here to make another world.

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