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Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

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I am too pure for you or anyone.

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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

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Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

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God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

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Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

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He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

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Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

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