The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience no…

C. S. Lewis
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The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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