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You don't have a soul. You have a body. You are a soul.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
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I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
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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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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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...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring.
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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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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