If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can sat…

C. S. Lewis
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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