To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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.
C.S. Lewis
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest..
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Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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Life isn't all fricassied frog and eel pie.
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Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
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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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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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This moment contains all moments.
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If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: <br/>think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the same<br/>building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel <br/>might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was<br/>really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become<br/>pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic
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The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
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Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.
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For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
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