The Inklings

Quotes from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, & Charles Williams — everyday.

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@andersroos My friend is translating a novel by Ryunosuke and has trouble reading and researching in Danish, and there is little info about Mr Roose in English or Japanese. We are at our wits’ end right now. Wish you could let us know if there is a miracle. : ) Thanks!

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@andersroos Hi! Do you by any chance know anything about this Danish photographer by the name of "Anders Roose"? He traveled in China for more than two decades in the early 20th century and was friends with the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

[pam w @Phwji]

@inklingsdaily Dum spiro spero (South Carolina state motto.)

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“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

(Dan the Squatter here)

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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

(Dan the Squatter still here)

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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
― C.S. Lewis

(Dan the Squatter updates.)

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“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
― C.S. Lewis

(Dan the Squatter updates)

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“Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.”
― Charles Williams, The Greater Trumps

(Dan the Squatter updates.)

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“An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.”
― Charles Williams, War in Heaven

(Dan the Squatter updates)

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“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

(Dan the Squatter updates.)

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“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

(Dan the squatter got up from the wrong side of the bed this morning. Sleep-deprived.)

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“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

(Dan the Squatter is back with sand between toes. How is everybody?)

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*beach. A beech concert sounds also nice though.

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“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
– The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

(Dan the Squatter is one foot outside for the beech concert trip! See you guys in two days. Take care!)

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You don’t have to tolerate barely *surviving* life. You also deserve help so life isn’t that hard all the time

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@gbadker Nope, but I got my cool blue coat. Don't worry.

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“Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

(Dan the Squatter is taking a long weekend escape for a concert on the beach tomorrow. Loves the adventure.)

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@JenniferOherin The good news is you get to pick one favorite, enjoy it, and then pick another!

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“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

(Updated by Dan the Squatter)

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“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

(Dan the Squatter has just braved a heavy rain.)

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@nebiim Thanks! I'll google that.

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“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

(Dan the Squatter wants to try meditation. Anything you recommend?)

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@JenniferOherin Thank you! I'll check it out.