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“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
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