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I used to beat Auguste all the time when we raced at Chastillon. It took me until I was nine to realise he was letting me win. I just thought I had a very fast pony.


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C.S. LEWIS You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know ...
C.S. LEWIS I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looki...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...
C.S. LEWIS The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea...
C.S. LEWIS At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...
C.S. LEWIS As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may thin...
C.S. LEWIS Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our nat...
C.S. LEWIS Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C.S. LEWIS In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
C.S. LEWIS Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the s...
C.S. LEWIS Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist...
C.S. LEWIS People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
C.S. LEWIS Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of ...
C.S. LEWIS The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but t...
C.S. LEWIS I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...
C.S. LEWIS He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no...
C.S. LEWIS I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ...
C.S. LEWIS A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...
C.S. LEWIS We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the b...
C.S. LEWIS To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S. LEWIS The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...
C.S. LEWIS If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...
C.S. LEWIS Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
C.S. LEWIS You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
C.S. LEWIS When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, ...
C.S. LEWIS In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one ...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. LEWIS The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C.S. LEWIS I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
C.S. LEWIS There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...
C.S. LEWIS A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d...
C.S. LEWIS They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
C.S. LEWIS Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
C.S. LEWIS The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
C.S. LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”

If there was an award for understatement, I th...
C.S. FRIEDMAN The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tr...
C.S. FRIEDMAN No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
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