“Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
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“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
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“In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.”
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“But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian.
Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.”
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“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
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“But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.”
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“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”
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“Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”
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“The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.”
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“Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”
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“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
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“I think I can understand that feeling about a housewife’s work being like that of Sisyphus (who was the stone rolling gentleman). But it is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, miners, cars, government etc exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? As Dr. Johnson said, “To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavour”. (1st to be happy to prepare for being happy in our own real home hereafter: 2nd in the meantime to be happy in our houses.) We wage war in order to have peace, we work in order to have leisure, we produce food in order to eat it. So your job is the one for which all others exist…”
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“No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.”
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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 vices can do.”
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“Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.”
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