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“El horror a Lo Mismo de Siempre es una de las pasiones más valiosas que hemos producido en el corazón humano: una fuente sin fin de herejías en lo religioso, de locuras en los consejos, de infidelidad en el matrimonio, de inconstancia en la amistad.”
― Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino
― Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino
“if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that ‘suits’ him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
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