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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
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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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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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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 is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine'.
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Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.
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Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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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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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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