“Are the gods not just?"
"Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”
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“Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!”
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“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”
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“But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?"
"Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.”
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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
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“Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.”
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“By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
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“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
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“I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.”
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“No people find each other more absurd than lovers”
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“Who are you?'
One who has waited long for you to speak.”
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“If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.”
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“Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?"
Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.”
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“You die and you die and then you are beyond death.”
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“Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.”
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