Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

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About C. S. Lewis

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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia,...

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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Crying is all right in its own 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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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

—Shirley MacLaine

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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