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Clive Staples Lewis

  • Dorian Grayhar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    I don’t mean another planet, you know; they’re part of our world and you could get to them if you went far enough—but a really Other World—another Nature another universe—somewhere you would never reach even if you travelled through the space of this universe for ever and ever—a world that could be reached only by Magic—well
  • Dorian Grayhar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
  • Dorian Grayhar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    “You have not made the first joke; you have only been the first joke.”
  • Dorian Grayhar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it.
  • Dorian Grayhar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    Things always work according to their nature.
  • Dorian Grayhar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
  • b8438848394har citeretsidste år
    Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good.
  • b8438848394har citeretsidste år
    we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
  • b8438848394har citeretsidste år
    I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in ‘the High Countries’. In that sense it will be true for those who have completed the journey (and for no others) to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere.
  • b8438848394har citeretsidste år
    Hell is a state of mind—ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind—is, in the end, Hell.
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