On Edmund Spenser and his famous work, in a letter to Arthur Greeves (7 March 1916), published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis : Family Letters, 1905–1931 (2004) edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

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Clive Staples Lewis книга Mere Christianity

Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.”

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The Weight of Glory (1949)

“Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.”

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Equality (1943)

“Are the gods not just?'
'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”

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Orual & The Fox
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)

“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

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Clive Staples Lewis книга The Screwtape Letters

Letter VIII
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”

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Martin Luther, quoted at the beginning of The Screwtape Letters
Misattributed

“What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H. C. F. [Highest Common Factor], and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.”

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Clive Staples Lewis книга The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man (1943)

“If you are tired of the real landscape, look at it in a mirror. By putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves. This book applies the treatment not only to bread or apple but to good and evil, to our endless perils, our anguish, and our joys. By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.”

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Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

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Clive Staples Lewis книга Mere Christianity

Book III, Chapter 8, "The Great Sin" http://books.google.com/books?id=OF-YSMKCVwMC&q=%22A+proud+man+is+always+looking+down+on+things+and+people+and+of+course+as+long+as+you+are+looking+down+you+cannot+see+something+that+is+above+you%22&pg=PA124#v=onepage <br class="br">Mere Christianity (1952)

“Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”

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Clive Staples Lewis книга A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Chapter 2: "Is Criticism Possible?"

“Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia…”

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Clive Staples Lewis книга The Pilgrim's Regress

The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“Ah, Psyche," I said, "have I made you so little happy as that?”

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Orual
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)