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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
 
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C. S. Lewis
 
Nationality:   British
 
Date of Birth:   Nov 29, 1898
 
Date of Death:   Nov 22,  1963
 
Profession:   Author
 
 
 
 
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