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Nov 29, 1898 - Nov 22, 1963	Quote Rating Average (90%) Author Rating (88%) Groups: Writers Nationlity: British nationals	C.S. Lewis Quotes: (ranking: 620th) Search C.S. Lewis's quotes
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."	Life & Death
"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations."	Writing
"It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves."	Virtue
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."	Theology
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."	Virtue
"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."	Beauty, Happiness
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."	Love
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."	Love
"Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal."	Love, Theology
"Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them."	Miscellaneous
"Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man."	Science
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."	Theology
"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."	Morality
"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."
"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."	Love
"No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power."	Science
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing."	Miscellaneous
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."	Charity
"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it."	Christianity
"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."	Religion

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