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“Now that all hope is gone, a deep relief has taken its place, and I allow myself to enjoy it before the despair sets in.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.”
― Silence
― Silence
“Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.”
― The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
― The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
“Categorical hatred is the hatred of the mob, which makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob overflowing with righteousness, as at the crucifixion, and before, and since.”
― Our Only World: Ten Essays
― Our Only World: Ten Essays
“Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them—never become even conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?”
― C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology
― C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology
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