It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
C. S. LewisNot my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the prรฉcis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.
C. S. LewisFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisCrying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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