I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.
("Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche")
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.C.S. Lewis
All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
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I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing The longing for home For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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