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Clive Staples Lewis, plus connu sous le nom de C. S. Lewis, né à Belfast le 29 novembre 1898 et mort à Oxford le 22 novembre 1963, est un écrivain et universitaire britannique. Il est connu pour ses travaux sur la littérature médiévale, ses ouvrages de critique littéraire et d'apologétique du christianisme, ainsi que pour la série des Chroniques de Narnia parues entre 1950 et 1957.

Ami très proche de J. R. R. Tolkien, l'auteur du Seigneur des anneaux, il enseigne à ses côtés à la faculté de littérature anglaise de l'université d'Oxford ; ils faisaient tous deux partie du cercle littéraire des Inklings. Partiellement en raison de l'influence de Tolkien et de la lecture de G. K. Chesterton, Lewis s'est reconverti au christianisme, devenant, selon ses propres termes, « un très ordinaire laïc de l'Église d'Angleterre » ; cette reconversion a eu de profondes conséquences sur son œuvre. Il a acquis une grande popularité par les chroniques radiophoniques sur le christianisme qu'il a données au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et obtenu un énorme succès avec ses livres de fantasy pour enfants.

Les œuvres de C. S. Lewis ont été traduites en plus de 40 langues et le recueil des Chroniques de Narnia s'est vendu à plus de 120 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde et continue à se vendre au rythme de plus d'un million d'exemplaires par an. Le Monde de Narnia a également été adapté à plusieurs reprises au théâtre et au cinéma. Wikipedia  

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C. S. Lewis Citations

“Je suis un païen converti vivant au milieu de puritains apostats.”

C. S. Lewis

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Surpris par la joie (Surprised by Joy, 1955)

C. S. Lewis: Citations en anglais

“The Spirit of the Age wishes to allow argument and not to allow argument. … If anyone argues with them they say that he is rationalizing his own desires, and therefore need not be answered. But if anyone listens to them they will then argue themselves to show that their own doctrines are true. … You must ask them whether any reasoning is valid or not. If they say no, then their own doctrines, being reached by reasoning, fall to the ground. If they say yes, then they will have to examine your arguments and refute them on their merits: for if some reasoning is valid, for all they know, your bit of reasoning may be one of the valid bits.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 63
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“He [the devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre Mere Christianity

Book IV, chapter 6, "Two Notes"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”

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Source: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, p. 90

“I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“Who believes in Aslan nowadays?”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

Prince Caspian (1951), Ch. 5.: Caspian's Adventure In The Mountains
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. “it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 137
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…”

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Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (July 1924), published in Letters (1966), p. 97

“This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again…. God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre Mere Christianity

Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

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The Weight of Glory (1949)

“If anything extraordinary seems to have happened, we can always say that we have been the victims of an illusion. If we hold a philosophy which excludes the supernatural, this is what we always shall say.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre Miracles

Source: Miracles (1947), Ch. 1: "The Scope of this Book"

“"Milton was right," said my Teacher. "The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery."”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre The Great Divorce

Source: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9

“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Ch. 15: Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“My form remains one, though the matter in it changes continually. I am, in that respect, like a curve in a waterfall.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre Miracles

Source: Miracles (1947), Ch. 16: "Miracles of the New Creation"

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”

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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 livre 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 livre 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 livre 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 livre 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
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 livre 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 livre 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)

“Not my idea of God, but God.”

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Clive Staples Lewis livre A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

“When equality is treated not as a medicine or a safety-gadget, but as an ideal, we begin to breed that stunted and envious sort of mind which hates all superiority. That mind is the special disease of democracy, as cruelty and servility are the special diseases of privileged societies. It will kill us all if it grows unchecked. The man who cannot conceive a joyful and loyal obedience on the one hand, nor an unembarrassed and noble acceptance of that obedience on the other — the man who has never even wanted to kneel or to bow — is a prosaic barbarian. But it would be wicked folly to restore these old inequalities on the legal or external plane. Their proper place is elsewhere.”

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Equality (1943)

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