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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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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it p...more

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Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steele...more

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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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Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship whi...more

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Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

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Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him and not another's. All that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His ...more

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Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that ...more

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I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such ...more

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As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amuse...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.