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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Irish novelist and poet

Lived from: 1898 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 november 1898 Died: 22 november 1963

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  • Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 52
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  • Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
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  • We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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  • We are what we believe we are.
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  • We do not retreat from reality, we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves... By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.
    On Stories and Other Essays Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
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  • We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
    The Weight of Glory (1949)
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  • We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.''
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  • What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
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  • What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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  • When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
    A Grief Observed (1961)
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  • When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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  • 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 only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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  • You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
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