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The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

"I only want my rights.  I'm not asking for anybody's bleeding charity. "

"Then do.  At once.  Ask for the Bleeding Charity.  Everything is here for the asking and nothing can be bought."  p. 28

"The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness."  p. 69

"Heaven is reality itself.  All that is fully real is Heavenly."  p. 70-71

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.  All that are in Hell, choose it.  Without that self-choice there could be no Hell."  p. 75

"You cannot love a fellow-creature fully until you love God."  p. 100

"Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it.  Their fists are clenched, their eyes fast shut."  p. 139

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