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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course th...more

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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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And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles.

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Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have...more

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And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue ...more

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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

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We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let...more

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

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Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

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And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many s...more

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It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

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

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...more

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more