Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, i…

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Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading ✨ C. S. Lewis (2012). An Experiment in Criticism, p.113, Cambridge University Press
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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). The World's Last Night: And Other Essays, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He … ▶
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits. ✨ C.S.Lewis (2016). The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair, p.44, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED
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Things always work according to their nature. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2013). The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen, p.98, Harper Collins

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading ✨ C. S. Lewis (2012). An Experiment in Criticism, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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