“Moreover, he knew nothing yet well enough to see it: you cannot see things till you know roughly what they are.”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“Sleep came like a fruit which falls into the hand almost before you have touched the stem.”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“Nothing could be more disgusting than the one impression; nothing more delightful than the other. It all depended on the point of view.”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“The distinction between natural and supernatural, in fact, broke down, and when it had done so, one realized how great a comfort it had been—how it had eased the burden of intolerable strangeness which this universe imposes on us by dividing it into two halves and encouraging the mind never to think of both in the same context. What price we may have paid for this comfort in the way of false security and accepted confusion of thought is another matter.”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
“And this, O Piebald, is the glory and wonder you have made me see; that it is I, I myself, who turn from the good expected to the given good. Out of my own heart I do it. One can conceive a heart which did not: which clung to the good it had first thought of and turned the good which was given it into no good.”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
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