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«We have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females - and there is more in that than you might suppose»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
beard, centuries, characteristics, disagreeable, extent, females, secondary, triumphed
«But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
afternoons, autumn, bottoms, dearly, intensely, lay
«If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bereavement, exception, integral, integral part, pains, pairs, purgatorial, separation, sufferings, suspecting, The Dead, universal
«If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side - if we could know!»
«Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.»
«In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assurance, assurances, creates, in a sense, No problem, painful, received, sense experience, side by side, solves, ultimate
«An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
an explanation, cause, explanation, justification
«Is it easy to love God?' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.»
«I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
pleasures, substituted, substitutes, substituting, wander
«There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
entire, flaunt, flaunted, flaunting, hidden, reconciles, reconciling, sexes, sword
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