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Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have...more

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I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in ...more

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... To be in time means to change.

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For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

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We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let...more

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...more

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The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itse...more

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

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One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many b...more