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"Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities."
19+ Quotes by C. S. Lewis
A curated collection of 19 inspirational quotes by C. S. Lewis on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
— C. S. Lewis
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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
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"Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning."
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"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
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"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
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"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."