The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we…

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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). God in the Dock, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). God in the Dock, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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