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“When you painted on earth—at least in your earlier days—it was because you caught glimpses of Heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too. But here you are having the thing itself. It is from here that the messages came. There is no good telling us about this country, for we see it already. In fact we see it better than you do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“no people find each other more absurd than lovers.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce: An extraordinary voyage of self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment

“When the doctrine of the Resurrection ceased to commend itself to the critical faculties which God had given me, I openly rejected it. I preached my famous sermon. I defied the whole chapter. I took every risk.’ ‘What risk? What was at all likely to come of it except what actually came—popularity, sales for your books, invitations, and finally a bishopric?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce: An extraordinary voyage of self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment

“Excuse me. Where do you imagine you’ve been?’ ‘Ah, I see. You mean that the grey town with its continual hope of morning (we must all live by hope, must we not?), with its field for indefinite progress, is, in a sense, Heaven, if only we have eyes to see it? That is a beautiful idea.’ ‘I didn’t mean that at all. Is it possible you don’t know where you’ve been?’ ‘Now that you mention it, I don’t think we ever do give it a name. What do you call it?’ ‘We call it Hell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce: An extraordinary voyage of self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment