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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...more

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The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear ...more

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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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It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no soon...more

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...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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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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Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

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They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than bi...more

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In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.