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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 To love at all is to be vulnerable. Quote Right
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Quote Left I believe Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. Quote Right
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Quote Left Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Quote Right
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Quote Left Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.... When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. Quote Right
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Quote Left No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs