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Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the ...more

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I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ...more

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If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost...more

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not bee...more

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Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

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Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, y...more

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I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slaver...more

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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours...more

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts