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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Adds Become Competence Daily Daily Life Describe Deserts Does Life Literature Lives Necessary Our Our Lives Provides Reality Requires Respect Simply

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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Business Heaven Joy Serious

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Aim Earth Get Heaven Neither Thrown Will You

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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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Topics: Art Friendship Give Like Philosophy Rather Survival Things Those Unnecessary Value

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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Ancestors Call Come Desires Devils Education Fears Forces God Hardly Intended Lives Mainly Meeting My Self Natural Nature Now Perhaps Person Place Really Self Some Something Various Were Which You

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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Christ Decay Despair Else Everything Everything Else Find Hatred Him Loneliness Long Long Run Look Only Rage Ruin Run Thrown Will You Yourself

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Because Believe Christianity Else Everything Everything Else Only Risen See Sun I See I Believe I Believe That I Believe In

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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Imagination Meaning Natural Natural Order Order Organ Reason Truth

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: About Day Each Each Day Endless Every Fact Grief Keep Live Living Merely Misery Only Part Reflection Shadow Speak Suffer Thinking You

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Break Fact In Fact Laws Miracles Nature

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: November 29th, 1898

Died: November 22nd, 1963

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