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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.
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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?
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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
Are the gods not just?""Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?
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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
Death opens a door out of a little, dark room {that's all the life we have known before it} into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.
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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
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C.S. Lewis _ Till We Have Faces
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
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It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
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