The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lightness, his spine unfurling, his shoulders settling.

Like a lie, cracking and dropping from him.


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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you wan...
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...
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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...
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We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I
In a Berkshire bar. The big workman
Who had sa...
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Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ...
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll h...
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev...
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The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where th...
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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will ...
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Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden ...
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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those t...
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I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as...
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You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know ...
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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looki...
C.S. LEWIS
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...
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The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea...
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At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...
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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may thin...
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our nat...
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
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Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the s...
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Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist...
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
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Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of ...
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The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but t...
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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no...
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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ...
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the b...
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
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You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
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When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, ...
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In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one ...
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Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d...
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They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
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Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
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We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it...
C.S. FRIEDMAN
Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”

If there was an award for understatement, I th...
C.S. FRIEDMAN
The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tr...
C.S. FRIEDMAN
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
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I desired dragons with a profound desire.
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What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
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