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C S Lewis

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an Irish author and scholar of mixed Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.. novelist poet academic medievalist literary critic essayist lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast


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Quote Left The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. Quote Right
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Quote Left A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. Quote Right
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Quote Left When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right Quote Right
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Quote Left Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs