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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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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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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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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vic...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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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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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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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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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

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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