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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist born in Belfast, Ireland.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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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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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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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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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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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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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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