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I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

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this is a book about something

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As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were...more

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Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you....more

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I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions d...more

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The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any oth...more

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I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

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He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evi...more

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly be...more

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for G...more

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you beli...more