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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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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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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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To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in...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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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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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

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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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It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

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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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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

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The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

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I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals ...more