“She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.”
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“Be thou glad sleeper and thy sorrow offcast. I am the gate to all good adventure.”
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“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”
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“Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”
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“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.”
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“Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.”
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“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
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“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
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“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
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“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
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“The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.”
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“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?”
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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
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“Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.”
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