There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the …

C. S. Lewis
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There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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