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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
Explore more quotes by C. S. Lewis
"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."
"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
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