For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
C. S. LewisIn Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
C. S. LewisChild,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
C. S. LewisThe Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
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