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C.s. Lewis, The Four Loves
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Quotes
- “I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. F...”
- “As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when ...”
- “Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and nee...”
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things whic...”
- “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
- “Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”
- “In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”