Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but …

C. S. Lewis
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Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.34, Faber & Faber
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