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Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

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I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one f...more

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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Jill had, as you might say, quite fall in love with the Unicorn. She thought- and she wasn't far wrong- that he was the shiningest, delicatest, most g...more

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to wast...more

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The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game in comparison. But the rest found it an eerie jour...more

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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till no...more

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Only five minutes later he noticed a dozen crocuses growing round the foot of an old tree- gold and purple and white. Then came a sound even more deli...more

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The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seawee...more

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Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew smaller. Every moment more and more of the trees shook off their robes of s...more

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this is a book about something

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There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-grown beech whose branches swayed gently above his...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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When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.