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The hatefulness of a hated person is "real"—in hatred you see men as they are; you are disillusioned; but the loveliness of a loved person is merely a subjective haze concealing a "real" core of sexual appetite or economic association. Wars and poverty are "really" horrible; peace and plenty are mere physical facts about which men happen to have certain sentiments.

— C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters (1942)

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Is Theology Poetry? (1945)

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Perelandra (1943)

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The Problem of Pain (1940)

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Out of the Silent Planet (1938)

If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

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