"He wondered how he could ever have thought……" — C.S. Lewis
"He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
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I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
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It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
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When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities…
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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