"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]"

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C. S. Lewis

#Book Quotes #Heart Quotes #Iron Quotes

“We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.”
“They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks soâ€”bad.”
“We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Additional Protocol.”
“I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.”
“If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same way, through the Apostles ordaining their successors, and these successors ordaining others, and so on, the grace of the Holy Spirit is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their spiritual shepherds and teachers.”
“I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.”

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“Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!”
“Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?”

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