You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while th…

C. S. Lewis
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You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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