At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character…

C. S. Lewis
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At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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