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«When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.»
«Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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at all costs, costing, costs, destroy, determination, likely, nation, species, survive
«All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.»
«You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Dreams,
Goals
| Keywords:
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«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Catholicism,
Protestantism
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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.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bad temper, good-tempered, good temper, hungriest, hungry, put down, temper, tired, worried
«Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.»
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