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C. S. Lewis

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Persahabatan tidak penting, seperti filosofi atau seni, namun memberi nilai untuk bertahan hidup.

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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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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Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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