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“Edmund, who had been looking more and more uncomfortable for the last few minutes, now spoke.
“Look here,” he said, “I hope I’m not a coward—about eating this food, I mean—and I’m sure I don’t mean to be rude. But we have had a lot of queer adventures on this voyage of ours and things aren’t always what they seem. When I look in your face I can’t help believing all you say: but then that’s just what might happen with a witch too. How are we to know you’re a friend?”
“You can’t know,” said the girl. “You can only believe—or not.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Look here,” he said, “I hope I’m not a coward—about eating this food, I mean—and I’m sure I don’t mean to be rude. But we have had a lot of queer adventures on this voyage of ours and things aren’t always what they seem. When I look in your face I can’t help believing all you say: but then that’s just what might happen with a witch too. How are we to know you’re a friend?”
“You can’t know,” said the girl. “You can only believe—or not.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.”
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“It is no good asking for a simple religion. After all, real things are not simple.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“for a brief, horrible moment, he could see himself the way he realized they saw him—as someone who needed to be saved.”
― The Leavers
― The Leavers
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