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  1. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
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  2. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
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  3. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
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  4. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.
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  5. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother's eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think how much he dislikes it. Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy - if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption. And, of course, never let him suspect that he has tones and looks which similarly annoy her. As he cannot see or hear himself, this easily managed.
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  6. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all-and more amusing.
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  7. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.
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  8. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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  9. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
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  10. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
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  11. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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  12. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered {moved, seconded, carried, and minuted} in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
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