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No
book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not
equally –
and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and
beyond. |
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It
is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and
goddesses, to
remember that the dullest and most uninteresting
person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you
saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a
horror and corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in
nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each
other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in
the light
of these overwhelming possibilities, it is in the awe and
circumspection proper to them that we should conduct all our
dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play,
all
politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never
talked
to a mere mortal.
I
didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle
of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel
really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
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It would seem that Our Lord
finds our desires not too
strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures,
fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when
infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who
wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he
cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday
at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
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If you look
for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look
for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only
soft soap
and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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You
never know how much you really believe anything until its truth
or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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What you see and what you hear depends a great
deal on where you
are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. |
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A
proud person is always looking down on things and people;
and, of course, as long as you are looking down,
you cannot see something that is above you. |
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Don't
use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely"
when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left
when you want to talk about something really infinite. |
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When
we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in
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| Clive
Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, as the son of A.J.
Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Augusta (Hamilton). His
mother, a promising mathematician, died when he was nine years
old. Lewis had been very close to his mother, who taught him
to love books and encouraged him to study French and Latin.
Lewis and his brother were brought up by their father.
During his childhood, Lewis created the imaginary country of
Bloxen. He started writing early - in the attic of their house he
had a "study" where he composed his stories. After
attending schools in Hertfordshire, Northern Ireland and Malvern,
he was educated at home from 1914-17.
"I am the
product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor
silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling
cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles.
Also of endless books," Lewis wrote in his autobiographical
book Surprised by Joy (1955). "There were books
in the study, books in the drawing-room, books in the cloakroom,
books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a
bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic,
books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents'
interests, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a
child and books most empathically not. Nothing was forbidden
me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume
after volume from the shelves..." Lewis's early
favorites were Edith Nesbit's books, among them The Story of
the Amulet (1906), which mixed fantasy with reality, and the
uncut edition of Gulliver's Travels. Later he read
the Norse myths and sagas, and such historical books as Henryk
Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis and Lew Wallace's Ben Hur.
Later he also found The Odyssey, Voltaire, Milton and
Spenser. Lewis's private tutor taught him to read Greek for
pleasure.
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