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Description
In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.
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Memorable Quotes
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“I am here struck by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”
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“A fear that guarded the road to Faerie was one I could face.”
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“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world. I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”
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“...the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
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“<Of myth> ...can I have been unhappy, living in Paradise? What keen, tingling sunlight there was! The mere smells were enough to make a man tipsy -- cut grass, dew-dabbled mosses, sweet pea autumn woods, wood burning, peat, salt water. The sense ached. I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”
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“This, I say, is the first and deadly error, which appears on every level of life and is equally deadly on all, turning religion into a self-caressing luxury and love into auto-eroticism. And the second error is, having thus falsely made a state of mind your aim, to attempt to produce it.”
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“The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”
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First Sentence
I was born in the winter of 1898 at Belfast, the son of a solicitor and of a clergyman's daughter.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. The First Years
II. Concentration Camp
III. Mountbracken and Campbell
IV. I Broaden My Mind
V. Renaissance
Vi. Bloodery
VII. Light and Shade
VIII. Release
IX. The Great Knock
X. Fortune's Smile
XI. Check
XII. Guns and Good Company
XIII. The New Look
XIV. Checkmate
XV. The Beginning
Authors & Contributors
- C. S. Lewis (Author)
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