Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woma…

C. S. Lewis
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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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