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  • All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

    Mean   Thinking   Faces  
    "Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.
  • Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

    Dark   Blood   Water  
    C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

    Mean   Thinking   Years  
  • If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Country   Home   Thinking  
  • Nothing is yet in its true form.

    Truth   Mystery   Wonder  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

    Hate   Believe   Hatred  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

    Soul   Suffering   Limits  
    C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

    Art   Children   Mean  
    "Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.
  • Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

    Children   Humor   Ifs  
  • But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

    Wine   Men   Feelings  
  • It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

    C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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