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“To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends. I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.”

Books Friends Reread

Author:C S Lewis

“Such a man as tourist think simple because he is honest and neighbors think deep for the same reason”

Author:C S Lewis

“Іοϋλίανποθω — and before I knew what I desired, the desire itself was gone, the whole glimpse withdrawn, the world commonplace again, or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased. It had taken only a moment of time; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison.”

Author:C S Lewis

“A man can no more resist the impulse of fate than a wheelbarrow can the force of its driver.”

Destiny Fate Destiny Quotes Fate Quotes

Author:C S Lewis

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.”

Grief Sorrow Emotions

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“You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a little opinion) of his own talents and character.”

Book:Cartas del diablo a su sobrino (Screwtape Letters)

Source: Cartas del diablo a su sobrino (Screwtape Letters)

“If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all round, contains the whole line, and sees it all.”

God Time Chrisitianity

Author:C S Lewis

“And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.”

Relationships Humour Bourgeois Monogamy

Book:The Great Divorce

Source: The Great Divorce

“I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.”

Fantasy Science Fiction Sci Fi Perelandra Eldil Oyarsa

Author:C S Lewis

“Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?”

Book:Till We Have Faces

Source: Till We Have Faces